On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Santiago Vila wrote:
> Could we please move the default to 755, not 2775, like every other
> "normal" directory in Debian? There is little point in keeping those
> directories world-writable if they stop being owned by group staff.
The group for the directories can still be staff, it should just not
be writable by group staff by default [but configurable by users to
be, with that configuration respected.]
/usr/local isn't a normal subdirectory tree, as nothing should be
shipped in it by Debian packages.
I had assumed that basefiles would do something like the following:
1) if group staff has non-root users:
- ask if /usr/local should be writable by staff
* yes: bail out; don't ask this question again
* no: continue to 2
2) make /usr/local and it's subdirectories which are root:staff 2775
either 2755 or 0755, root:root or root:staff; don't really care
which; don't do this step ever again upon completion.
packages making subdirectories of /usr/local would do something like;
3) if [ -e /path/to/foo/ ]; then
if mkdir -m=$(stat -c %a /usr/local) /path/to/foo 2>/dev/null; then
chgrp $(stat -c %g /usr/local) /path/to/foo;
fi;
fi;
for each of the subdirectories created, as appropriate.
Don Armstrong
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