Yeah so it's probably MCC that is doing it then solely, and still needs to
be fixed. Thanks for diagnosing!
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 11:43, JanCeuleers
<jan.ceule...@computer.org>wrote:
> Here's my feeble attempt at diagnosing this:
>
> ****
> mythbuntu-control-centre_0.10-0ubuntu1_all.deb is not the smoking gun, but
> it does contain the following in
> data/usr/share/pycentral/mythbuntu-control-centre/site-packages/MythbuntuControlCentre/changer.py:
>
> def write_mysql_txt(self,user,password,database,server):
> """Writes out a mysql.txt in /etc/mythtv"""
> if os.path.exists("/etc/mythtv/mysql.txt"):
> print "Moving /etc/mythtv/mysql.txt to
> /etc/mythtv/mysql.txt.mythbuntu-old"
> shutil.move("/etc/mythtv/mysql.txt",
> "/etc/mythtv/mysql.txt.mythbuntu-old")
> out_f = open("/etc/mythtv/mysql.txt", "w")
> out_f.write("DBHostName=" + server + "\n")
> out_f.write("DBUserName=" + user + "\n")
> out_f.write("DBName=" + database + "\n")
> out_f.write("DBPassword=" + password + "\n")
> out_f.close()
>
> This snippet does not appear to set the mode of the file at all, so that it
> inherits the permissions from /etc/mythtv (which on my system is owner by
> root). I think that this does need to be fixed.
> ****
> mythtv-common_0.20.2-0ubuntu10_all.deb
>
> control/postinst contains the following:
>
> NEW=$(mktemp -t mysql.txt-XXXXXX)
> if [ -s /etc/mythtv/mysql.txt ]; then
> INPUT=/etc/mythtv/mysql.txt
> chown --reference="$INPUT" "$NEW"
> chmod --reference="$INPUT" "$NEW"
> else
> INPUT=/usr/share/mythtv/mysql.txt.dist
> chown mythtv:mythtv "$NEW"
> chmod 660 "$NEW"
> fi
>
> ($NEW later gets mv-ed into place).
>
> This seems correct: it either inherits the ownership and mode of the file
> if it already exists, or else it gets set to mythtv:mythtv and 660.
> ****
>
> That's all I've been able to come up with. This was done by searching
> for "mysql.txt" within the files contained in the deb archives (ar -x,
> followed by tar zxvf of both data and control files, followed by fgrep
> -r).
>
> If you have other suggestions for diagnosing this I'd be delighted.
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> Mode of /etc/mythtv/mysql.txt should be 660
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/343204
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