Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 18:00:01 -0700 (PDT) From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Co=EFdan?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: conf/7908: wrong perms on objformat after upgrade Message-ID: <199809130100.SAA22517@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR conf/7908; it has been noted by GNATS. From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Co=EFdan?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) To: seggers@semyam.dinoco.de Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: conf/7908: wrong perms on objformat after upgrade Date: 13 Sep 1998 02:50:12 +0200 Stefan Eggers <seggers@semyam.dinoco.de> writes: > I did the transition from a.out to ELF with the abovementioned > sources splitted in building and installing. It all went fine as far > as the system is concerned (I myself made an operator error :->) except > the permissions on /etc/objformat. I installed it as root with an > umask of 077 and the file got the permissions 0600. Don't Do That, Then. I learned the hard way never to set root's umask to anything stricter than 022. Unless you always remember to set the umask right at the right time, anything you install (including, but not limited to, /etc/objformat) is installed wrong. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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