On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 08:23:34PM +0100, void wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 10:30:08AM +0400, Andrey Simonenko wrote:
> >
> > 0700 mode restricts other users from reading /root directory.
> > When root wants to upgrade system he/she run "make buildworld",
> > "make installworld". But installworld calls mtree, which changes
> > /root permissions to default value specified in the /etc/mtree/BSD.root.dist
> > file. So, if administrator will not forgot about needed permissions
> > on /root, then installworld will open /root directory for reading
> > for everybody.
> >
> > I propose not to change permissions on /root directory in
> > the /etc/mtree/BSD.root.dist file and leave them unchanged.
> >
> > Comments?
>
> There is a whole class of problems like this. For example, my
> installation of mutt doesn't work right if /var/mail is not mode 1777,
> but BSD.var.dist changes it to 755 every time I installworld.
>
> I think a more general solution might be in order. Perhaps some sort
> of local.dist that is processed after BSD.*.dist.
>
> As a workaround, I put "chmod 1777 /var/mail" in my rc.local script.
> I suggest you do something similar.
And then, of course, there is the obvious solution: maintaining some
local patches, applied to the source tree after each update.
(and reversed before each update..)
This is the way I'm doing it, but then, I have a *lot* of local changes,
and such an approach might not make sense for a single change like that..
G'luck,
Peter
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