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Date:      Sun, 15 Mar 2009 21:30:44 +0200
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd001@pc.jgr.de
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: emacs installs a lot of 777 directories
Message-ID:  <87ljr61t3v.fsf@kobe.laptop>
In-Reply-To: <200903062256.n26MuA2r085728@pc.jgr.de> (freebsd's message of "Fri, 6 Mar 2009 23:56:10 %2B0100 (CET)")
References:  <200903062256.n26MuA2r085728@pc.jgr.de>

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On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 23:56:10 +0100 (CET), freebsd001@pc.jgr.de wrote:
> Dear list members,
>
> I am not only wondering about the permissions of several emacs-related
> directories as it has recently been mentioned in this thread, but also
> about the ownership of several emacs-related files.

This seems to be a local installation glitch.

>>find . -not -user root | head -n 3
> ./emacs/22.3/etc
> ./emacs/22.3/etc/GNUS-NEWS
> ./emacs/22.3/etc/fr-drdref.ps
>
>>find . -not -user root | wc -l
>     2643

% uname -vr
8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #0: Fri Mar 13 16:39:47 EET 2009     build@kobe:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KOBE
% pwd
/usr/local/share
% find . -not -user root -exec ls -ld {} + | head -3
-rw-rw-r--  1 games  games  0 Mar 14 19:06 ./games/glines.Large.scores
-rw-rw-r--  1 games  games  0 Mar 14 19:06 ./games/glines.Medium.scores
-rw-rw-r--  1 games  games  0 Mar 14 19:06 ./games/glines.Small.scores
% find . -not -user root -a -not -user games -exec ls -ld {} +
%

So the only files that are not owned by root here are those owned by the
`games' user.

You have many hundreds of files owned by != root users.  Who owns those
files, and do yu remember how the relevant ports have been installed?


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