i found something ugly about freeBSD

[Mark]

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From: <zzerver at hotmail.com>
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Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 3:01 AM
Subject: i found something ugly about freeBSD


> Am probably wrong i hope.

Yes, you are. :)

> ... but mysqld creates a file call /tmp/mysql.sock,
> but this file got to be 777???

Yeah, well, that's the general idea; everybody can read/write to the mysqld
server socket: from "nobody" (web server) to root.

> ...i loging with a other user and call a rm /tmp/mysql.sock

Set the sticky bit (+t) on /tmp/, and only the owner of the mysql socket
will be able to delete it.

- Mark