Re: IMPORTANT: Fix for bad permissions on 1.1 boot floppies
Tim Sailer writes ("Re: IMPORTANT: Fix for bad permissions on 1.1 boot floppies"):
> In your email to me, Dominik Kubla, you wrote:
> > >>>>> Tim 'Death before Decaf' Sailer writes:
> > > The only thing that SCO did right on it's products (*my* opinion)
> > > was their 'fixperms' system. Each package had a list of files, which
> > > also had the owner/group and the file perms with it, so if you
> > > totally screwed your perms (maybe from an errant chmod -R, not that
> > > *I* ever did that :) ), you should just do (if I remember right)
> > > 'fixperm package' and it would run and fix stuff. Maybe something
> > > like this could be built, maybe into dpkg/dselect? Or I just may
> > > take the time to whip something up in perl...
> >
> > Just grab fixperms.1.00.tar.gz from
> >
> > sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Admin/
>
> Duh! <smacks heel of hand against forehead> I should have looked
> there. I'll take a look at it.
> > Then package it for Debian and away we go... I think you made a very
> > good suggestion here, because the permission lists could be used by
> > tripewire too (if we could figure out how to feed them to tripwire).
>
> Yeah, but a separate package isn't quite the same as having it
> integrated into dpkg...
The way to do this using dpkg is to feed dpkg the .deb file. It will
correct the permissions on anything that isn't a conffile.
I could possibly provide an option that disables the preservation of
conffile permissions.
Ian.
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