[thelist] chmod 666

[george donnelly]

[Hassan Schroeder wrote (hassan at webtuitive.com) on 2/11/03 10:03 PM]

> Caren Spencer-Smith wrote:
>
>> Why would anyone ever want to set permissions to 777?
>
> To have a world-writable directory -- typically used for temporary
> application-created files.

But in that case, you might not want anyone to be able to delete other
people's files, so you can set the sticky bit, chmod +t.

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