Bug#335682: tetex-base: Only root can read /etc/texmf/updmap.d/00updmap.cfg

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no> wrote:

> Package: tetex-base
> Version: 3.0-10
> Severity: normal
>
>
> # ls -l /etc/texmf/updmap.d/00updmap.cfg
> -rw-------  1 root root 2787 2005-10-24 12:46 /etc/texmf/updmap.d/00updmap.cfg
>
> This seems overly restrictive - there's no reason to hide this from users.
> Suggested fix: -rw-r--r-- permisssion instead.

This file is created by a maintainer script, using ucf, and on normal
installs it has -rw-r--r--.  Could it be that you are using restrictive
umask settings when installing packages?

Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer