From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Sep 13 02:59:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA08864 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 02:59:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA08856; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 02:59:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from hrotti.ifi.uio.no (2602@hrotti.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.15]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id LAA06599; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 11:59:22 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by hrotti.ifi.uio.no ; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 11:59:22 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Bruce Evans Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: conf/7908: wrong perms on objformat after upgrade References: <199809130433.OAA05842@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Organization: University of Oslo, Department of Informatics X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-other-addresses: 'finger dag-erli@ifi.uio.no' for a list X-disclaimer-1: The views expressed in this article are mine alone, and do X-disclaimer-2: not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or X-disclaimer-3: company with which I am or have been affiliated. X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org/ From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Co=EFdan?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 13 Sep 1998 11:59:21 +0200 In-Reply-To: Bruce Evans's message of "Sun, 13 Sep 1998 14:33:17 +1000" Message-ID: Lines: 15 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id CAA08858 Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Bruce Evans writes: > > > the permissions on /etc/objformat. I installed it as root with an > > > umask of 077 and the file got the permissions 0600. > > Don't Do That, Then. I learned the hard way never to set root's umask > > to anything stricter than 022. Unless you always remember to set the > > umask right at the right time, anything you install (including, but > > not limited to, /etc/objformat) is installed wrong. > Nonsense. Everything installed properly (using install(1)) is installed > right. XFree86 comes to mind. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message