Subject: Re: Permissions on directories.
To: John F. Woods <jfw@jfwhome.funhouse.com>
From: Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca>
List: current-users
Date: 10/20/1998 14:55:37
On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, John F. Woods wrote:

> Of course, you realize that the instant you install a "no
> subdirectories in /tmp" feature, someone will complain that they have
> an archive with a dozen or so small files that they can't unpack in
> /tmp....

I doubt you'd see complaints like this. By the time they've discovered
they can't run X or ssh, and the network server won't let them do
a CVS update anyway, they'll have given up. :-)

cjs
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