A question about groups

[Karl Auer]

On Sun, 2020-04-05 at 09:35 -0400, stan wrote:
> I was working in a directory that I just created, as the non root
> user that I was trying to do this work as FYI.

That directory would not be writable by an unprivileged user; it would
be writable only by you and root. /tmp has special permissions that
allow it to be written by anyone (read up on the "sticky bit").

Regards, K.

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