Solved: pacman - permissions differ on tmp/

Gen2ly · 2010-09-13 17:20:05

Not sure if anyone else is seeing this because this may have been part of something I did a way back. I'm getting:

( 35/400) upgrading filesystem                     [######################] 100%
warning: directory permissions differ on tmp/
filesystem: 777  package: 1777

I know a bit about the filesystem package. If I remember correctly it contains files that are Arch specific like the boot scripts... Now if I'm reading this correctly the 777 permissions of "filesystem" is original directory and "package" is the package's permissions for the tmp directory. Here's my /tmp directory permissions after the update:

drwxrwxrwt  11 root root 4.0K Sep 13 11:41 tmp

Can anyone help me clarify this? Is the problem now fixed, or is there something I need to do?

Last edited by Gen2ly (2010-09-13 19:49:14)

JGC · 2010-09-13 18:47:09

I haven't seen pacman changing permission on directories yet, but according to the message, your /tmp didn't have the sticky bit set before the upgrade. Though things will work fine with just 777, not having the sticky bit on /tmp will mean that someone could delete and replace files owned by someone else, which is a security risk.

Gen2ly · 2010-09-13 19:48:40

Thanks JGC. Setting the sticky bit did the trick.

chmod 1777 /tmp

Appreciate the help.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticky_bit

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#1 2010-09-13 17:20:05

Solved: pacman - permissions differ on tmp/

#2 2010-09-13 18:47:09

Re: Solved: pacman - permissions differ on tmp/

#3 2010-09-13 19:48:40

Re: Solved: pacman - permissions differ on tmp/

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