On Aug 24, 2008, at 11:15 PM, James McKenzie wrote: > Neil Tiffin wrote: >> >>> I have the following permissions for /sw/fink: >>> >>> drwxr-xr-x 5 hansen admin 476 2008-08-17 22:01 fink >>> >>> >>> >> >> Thanks, I changed my permissions recursively to root:admin and >> everything started working again (Mac OS X 10.5.4) >> >> Neil >> >> >> > This is BAD security practice for Fink. The Fink directory should be > OWNED by YOU, not ROOT. This maybe why you originally had this > problem. This would require sudo just to run Fink to do anything. > Let > Fink decide what needs to be installed/updated with root privileges. > Please change your permissions away from root.
Thanks for the heads up. Just to be clear I have never monkeyed with permission for fink for any reason. Now when I went to change it and follow your suggestion, I made a typo and applied <username>:admin to / sw instead of /sw/fink. I stopped it partway through, but fear problems ahead. What should be the permissions for the other directories in /sw? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users