Why can a normal user write to roots files?

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08-08-2012, 12:32 AM	#16
chrism01 LQ Guru Registered: Aug 2004 Location: Sydney Distribution: Rocky 9.2 Posts: 18,356 Rep:	You don't have the sticky bit set on that dir; if you did, the last perm bit would be a 't' eg global /tmp dir usually has it set on Code: ls -l / drwxrwxrwt 4 root root 4096 Aug 8 04:02 tmp

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