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indigo196

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Registered: 2008-02-16

Posts: 4

Recent install -- trouble with KDE -- tmp directory solution?

I recently installed Arch and got KDE installed, but could only logon to KDE as root. I found that the /tmp directory appeared to not give regular users any rights and did a chmod on the directory.

Now I am curious if I needed to do that or if there may have been some other issue -- what are the proper rights settings for the tmp directory?

loserMcloser

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From: Canada

Registered: 2004-12-15

Posts: 120

Re: Recent install -- trouble with KDE -- tmp directory solution?

> ls -ld /tmp
drwxrwxrwt 18 root root 420 2008-02-15 20:42 /tmp/

indigo196

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Registered: 2008-02-16

Posts: 4

Re: Recent install -- trouble with KDE -- tmp directory solution?

> ls -ld /tmp
drwxrwxrwx 8 root root 4096 Feb 15 15:21:01 /tmp

Is what I get... I noticed the t at the end of yours... was that a typo or do I need to modify mine?

Majorix

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Registered: 2008-01-31

Posts: 96

Re: Recent install -- trouble with KDE -- tmp directory solution?

No it is a t.

indigo196

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Registered: 2008-02-16

Posts: 4

Re: Recent install -- trouble with KDE -- tmp directory solution?

so I just need to make mine 'sticky'?

Last edited by indigo196 (2008-02-16 02:24:28)

fwojciec

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Registered: 2007-05-20

Posts: 1,411

Re: Recent install -- trouble with KDE -- tmp directory solution?

so I just need to make mine 'sticky'?

Yes. Either do "chmod +t /tmp" or "chmod 1777 /tmp" as root -- both should accomplish the same thing.

indigo196

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Registered: 2008-02-16

Posts: 4

Re: Recent install -- trouble with KDE -- tmp directory solution?

thanks... as another Q: Is this abnormal that it would be this way after an install or did I miss the step in the documentation?

peart

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From: Kanuckistan

Registered: 2003-07-28

Posts: 510

Re: Recent install -- trouble with KDE -- tmp directory solution?

It's abnormal.  A little bug crawled into the installer recently...