Bug#357983: tetex-bin: mktexmf can't write new .mf files
Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr> wrote:
> Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:
>
>> That's how it's always been on UNIX systems.
>
> Didier: you can verify this with the 'groups' command.
Or with id, I know. Look, I know it's unrelated to TeX, but I just
took the opportunity to ask some clarification on this behavior I've never
really understood on Unix. Why is a new login required to make the change
effective ? That's all. I never claimed anything was broken.
>> teTeX folks, I fear we have to revert this change and make the system
>> insecure by default. I suggest that we change it only for fresh
>> installations and leave unstable users to chmod -R.
>>
>> Comments?
>
> Well, that's sad---I find the current setup relatively sane.
> Didier: why don't you want your TeX users to be members of the 'users'
> group ?
Where did you see I was against this ??
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