From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 1 13:40:52 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87FCC16A41F for ; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 13:40:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from kane.otenet.gr (kane.otenet.gr [195.170.0.95]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B26AC43D46 for ; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 13:40:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from flame.pc (aris.bedc.ondsl.gr [62.103.39.226]) by kane.otenet.gr (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-1) with SMTP id jA1DenSK031506; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 15:40:50 +0200 Received: from flame.pc (flame [127.0.0.1]) by flame.pc (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id jA1Dem3w002913; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 15:40:48 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by flame.pc (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id jA1DelEu002912; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 15:40:47 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 15:40:47 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Cerion Armour-Brown Message-ID: <20051101134047.GA2897@flame.pc> References: <20051101105745.M78709@terpsichore.ws> <20051101124144.GA1568@flame.pc> <20051101125015.M15158@terpsichore.ws> <20051101125617.GA2318@flame.pc> <20051101131654.M27340@terpsichore.ws> <20051101132557.GA2732@flame.pc> <20051101133234.M61656@terpsichore.ws> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051101133234.M61656@terpsichore.ws> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: running subversion as non-root X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 13:40:52 -0000 On 2005-11-01 08:32, Cerion Armour-Brown wrote: >On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 15:25:57 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote >> If you used the standard Ports stuff to install these and they >> have these broken permissions, it may be a side-effect of a >> broken umask setting for the root user. >> >> What do you see if you log in as 'root' and issue: >> >> # umask >> >> Is this 0022 or something similar, or not? If not, what value >> does it print? > > ahh, that's interesting: mine is 0027 Ugh! That's a bit Evil(TM). It means all the files root creates get their 'other' permissions zeroed out unconditionally, so this explains why your libraries can only be used by people in the 'wheel' group. > I guess I should set that to 0022, and reinstall everything... (groan) Very likely. Sorry for the bad news :-/