Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:26:06 +0200 From: Nikos Ntarmos <ntarmos@cs.uoi.gr> To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: emacs installs a lot of 777 directories Message-ID: <20090319102606.GA27912@ace.cs.uoi.gr> In-Reply-To: <87ljr61t3v.fsf@kobe.laptop> References: <200903062256.n26MuA2r085728@pc.jgr.de> <87ljr61t3v.fsf@kobe.laptop>
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On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 09:30:44PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > 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 That's probably due to the fact that emacs uses something along the lines of 'tar -chf - ... | tar -xvf - ...' to copy the files, followed (in some cases) by a chown to $LOGNAME (or if that is not set, to $USERNAME). If you just 'su', LOGNAME remains set to what it was before (i.e. nutzer), while 'su -' will clear that out. Cheers. \n\n
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