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minus-squareBjörn Tantau@swg-empire.delinkfedilinkarrow-up22·28 days ago/tmp might be world writable but everything created in there belongs to the respective users.
minus-squareshoki@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·28 days agoExactly! if a service running under root creates a file, it belongs to root. if that file has permissions that don’t allow other users to write (most do), then you can’t delete it without sudo afaik
/tmp might be world writable but everything created in there belongs to the respective users.
TIL. Makes sense, though.
Exactly! if a service running under root creates a file, it belongs to root. if that file has permissions that don’t allow other users to write (most do), then you can’t delete it without sudo afaik