On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Ron Stodden wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Benjamin Sher wrote:
>
> > This time I first chown -R sher: sher * in my entire /home/sher
> > directory, which includes SO and its 70 meg installation binary:
>
> Good news! I'll try the same. Still, the installation _should_ have
> reported a problem. Sun must learn.
It's not Sun's responsability to watch the permissions of your files,
thats your job. Ben's problem was two fold,
1 he extracted the tar as root
(big big no no, isn't that like rule number one, be glad sun is
respectable and they didn't overwrite your /etc/{shadow,passwd}* )
2 he wasn't aware of how to preserve permissions while useing cp
> --
>
> Regards,
>
> Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux.
>
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