[SOLVED] Firefox 12.0 download permissions and ownership problem?

Alkin · 05-26-2012, 11:17 AM

Hi everybody,

Recently I've messed up ownership and permissions of the /tmp directory

.
To fix that I've used

Code:

 chown root:root && chmod 1777

drwsrwsrwt 11 root root 4096 tmp/

Now, whenever I download a file using Firefox it gets

-rw-r--r-- 1 [user] root

ownership and permissions. Is this a normal behavior? If not, a fix instructions would be appreciated.

Regards

camorri · 05-26-2012, 12:17 PM

Change your download location to some place like /home/yourusername/download/ You can change the download location in Edit-->Preferences-->General Save Files To.

I have the same permissions on /tmp in FF 12 and have no issues.

T3slider · 05-26-2012, 01:03 PM

You still have setgid/setuid bits set on /tmp which shouldn't be set. The setgid bit will cause new files saved in /tmp to be part of the root group.

Code:

chmod u-s,g-s /tmp

should take care of it.

Alkin · 05-26-2012, 01:47 PM

Cool!

Code:

chmod u-s,g-s /tmp

fixed the problem.

T3slider, many thanks.