Date: 23 Jul 2003 17:57:30 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> To: "Brad" <brad@perfectcircle.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Make Permission errors! Most odd. Message-ID: <44he5csy7p.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <001f01c35027$a09853f0$c366b38e@kthx> References: <001f01c35027$a09853f0$c366b38e@kthx>
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"Brad" <brad@perfectcircle.ca> writes: > I've been experiencing permission errors with make > intermittently. It's happening with quite a few users on the box but > it's just random. It's never a certain application or a certain > user/group so it's been very hard to pinpoint what the problem is, > hence why I'm posting here. > > What is happening is basically a user will untar a file and type > "make" after a ./configure and get "make: Permission denied". When I > first encountered this I believe I chmod -R 777 * in the directory > that the file was untared in and that worked for me, but for some of > my users who are less experienced with freeBSD won't know how and > don't know how to resolve this and it shouldn't be happening in the > first place. Other users say they have gotten the error and simply > logged out and back in and resolved it. > > > Anyone have any ideas what is causing this and how to fix it? tar(1) stores permissions as well as the files themselves. By default, it doesn't seem (according to a quick manual check I just did) to try to recreate those permissions when it extracts the files; it uses the umask instead. So make sure that the users have a reasonable umask by default.
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