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Subject: Re: emacs installs a lot of 777 directories
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> And who owns the files?
>>> On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 11:15 +0900, Randy Bush wrote:
>>>> foo.on.you:/usr/local/share# find . -type d -perm 777
>>>> ./emacs/22.3/etc/tree-widget
>>>> ./emacs/22.3/etc/tree-widget/folder
>>>> ./emacs/22.3/etc/tree-widget/default
>>> Could this simply be an over promiscuous umask being set when Emacs was
>>> installed? ie. umask 000 rather than the default umask 022 for root?
>> root's umask is 022

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