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Aditya M P
Asked: 2013-10-26 03:35:36 +0800 CST

Should the ~/tmp folder belong to me or root?

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I was trying to run yeoman under my user, when I got errors when it tried to access /home/adityamenon/tmp. I checked the permissions and it turns out ~/tmp/ belongs to root.

So I changed the user and group to myself, but was this the right thing to do? Who should ~/tmp belong to?

Also, when I'm booting, I get an error message about /tmp/ not being mounted... if that info helps.

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  1. Best Answer

    The ~/tmp directory, that is, a directory called "tmp" in a user's home directory, is not mentioned in any file hierarchy standards. Given that it's in your home directory it probably should be owned by you.

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