Why does Samba requires 777 permissions on /tmp

Jimmy ljboiler at gmail.com
Mon May 20 15:18:42 UTC 2013


Just out of curiosity, what is your PATH set to in whatever console/terminal
window before you run portupgrade ( echo $PATH )?

On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 08:03:09AM -0500, sindrome wrote:
> Looks like a step in the right direction.  How do I troubleshoot to figure
> out what application is appending/changing the value of PATH?
> 
> 
> On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 2:56 AM, <poyopoyo at puripuri.plala.or.jp> wrote:
> 
> > At Sat, 18 May 2013 18:34:47 -0500,
> > sindrome wrote:
> > > /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgtools/pkgtools.rb:483: warning:
> > > Insecure world writable dir /tmp in PATH, mode 040777
> >
> > At Sun, 19 May 2013 23:31:21 -0500,
> > sindrome wrote:
> > > /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgtools/pkgtools.rb:483: warning:
> > > Insecure world writable dir /tmp/. in PATH, mode 041777
> >
> > At Sun, 19 May 2013 21:30:03 +0200,
> > Simon Wright wrote:
> > > /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgtools/pkgtools.rb:288: warning:
> > > Insecure world writable dir /tmp/ in PATH, mode 041777
> >
> > /tmp
> > /tmp/.
> > /tmp/
> >
> > Interesting three different messages.
> > It looks like three different entities adds their own value to your PATH.
> >
> > What you guys should do first is to find who sets stupid PATH for you.
> > I don't suppose portupgrade does.
> >
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