Re: Default permissions(was Re: cat's got my lp1)
On Thu, Jun 04, 1998 at 01:39:10PM -0500, servis@purdue.edu wrote:
> On 3 Jun, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 03:52:12PM -0400, <click_here> wrote:
> >> I recently chmod / -R 777 my system to try and cure a permission problem I
> >> was having, I know - major stupid, This might be the problem.
> >
> > I think I'd do a reinstall after this - I doubt that it will introduce
> > permission problems, but security will be .. lacking.
> >
> >> My delema is not knowing how to reverse the 777 stuff, or where to fix the
> >> lpd.
> >
> > I'd give up on the first on I think :-(
> >
>
> I think it would be great if perhaps the Contents files that are on the
> ftp sites would also list the permissions of the files as they are
> installed. This would at least help those that have permission
> problems. It won't help for files that are created in setup scripts
> but it would be better that a complete reinstall. My $0.02.
Oddly enough, someone at work was mentioning that on HP, the permissions are
listed in a file, so why don't we do something similar and add the
permissions into /var/lid/dpkg/info/<package>.list. This could be useful -
if you install a package with messed up permissions, any *upgrades* won't
change those permissions to the correct ones without "chmod/chown" calls in
the postinst.
Mind you, he then had problems with "chown" setting the permissions of a
*symlink* (i.e. the symlink itself was being set to mode 550 !!). I'm glad
I'm on Linux :-)
Adrian
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