We are working to relax the permissions on the files to rwx r-x r-x Charles Ballard CCP4
On 19 Jul 2011, at 11:25, Weiergräber, Oliver H. wrote: > Hello, > > version 6.2.0 of ccp4 has strange permissions set to several > setup/configuration scripts which are read while sourcing ccp4.setup. > > For a long time, ccp4 packages have been distributed with some arbitrary file > and directory ownerships which users are obviously supposed to edit to meet > their needs. On unix/linux workstations, we usually install under /usr/local > and change all ownerships to root.root (default practice for third-party > software). > Up to now, this has not caused any problems. > In version 6.2.0, however, ccp4.setup has permissions rwx r-- --- which makes > it unreadable (and un-sourcable) for ordinary users! Strangely, > ccp4-others.setup has the usual permissions rwx r-x r-x (although rw- r-- r-- > should be sufficient for sourcing). > After rectifying the permissions of ccp4.setup, additional errors appear, > concerning permissions of several scripts in the xia2 and phaser trees: > ccp4-6.2.0/share/xia2/setup.csh > ccp4-6.2.0/share/xia2/xia2core/setup.csh > ccp4-6.2.0/share/xia2/xia2/setup.csh > ccp4-6.2.0/src/phaser/bin/machine_type > ccp4-6.2.0/src/phaser/conf/version.csh > All these files have the same problematic permissions as ccp4.setup. After > fixing them, ccp4.setup can be sourced without errors. > The bad thing is that there may be many more issues of this kind, which will > only surface when trying to run a specific ccp4 program... > > Maybe the developers or packagers could comment on this issue. It looks like > this ccp4 version is supposed to be installed in a user's home directory, so > that he/she can take ownership of all the files. > While in general there is nothing wrong with this type of installation, it > should _NOT_ be considered the default on unix-type (i.e. multi-user) > operating systems. > > Best regards, > Oliver > > > ================================================ > PD Dr. Oliver H. Weiergräber > Institute of Complex Systems > ICS-6: Structural Biochemistry > Tel.: +49 2461 61-2028 > Fax: +49 2461 61-1448 > ================================================ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH > 52425 Juelich > Sitz der Gesellschaft: Juelich > Eingetragen im Handelsregister des Amtsgerichts Dueren Nr. HR B 3498 > Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: MinDirig Dr. Karl Eugen Huthmacher > Geschaeftsfuehrung: Prof. Dr. Achim Bachem (Vorsitzender), > Dr. Ulrich Krafft (stellv. Vorsitzender), Prof. Dr.-Ing. Harald Bolt, > Prof. Dr. Sebastian M. Schmidt > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
