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- To: Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>
- Subject: Re: Bug#335682: tetex-base: Only root can read /etc/texmf/updmap.d/00updmap.cfg
- From: Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@aitel.hist.no>
- Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 09:24:19 +0200
- Message-id: <435F2F23.4020504@aitel.hist.no>
- In-reply-to: <878xwhyafr.fsf@alhambra.kuesterei.ch>
- References: <E1EUNWc-0000xm-00@spohr.debian.org> <878xwhyafr.fsf@alhambra.kuesterei.ch>
Frank Küster wrote:
>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?
>
>
I checked, and no. Root uses umask 0002,
touch testfile
gives a file with -rw-rw-r--
The only files with -rw------- permissions was
00updmap.cfg and 00updmap.cfg.dpkg-old
Maybe the bad permission came from the old file then, sorry
to bother you with this.
Helge Hafting
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