Date: Tue, 4 Apr 95 17:15:33 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: new install(1) utility Message-ID: <9504042315.AA21347@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <199504042159.PAA07511@trout.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Apr 4, 95 03:59:15 pm
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> As long as I'm in a rebutting mood.
>
> > Much better (if one must hack on install) to cause intermediately
> > created directories when installing a target to be owned by the
> > specified user and group instead of being owned by the installer
> > (hint: this would fix a number of X install problems).
>
> 1) Install doesn't create any intermediate directories. Install doesn't
> create directories period. (Although NetBSD has added support for that
> in their version).
% man install
[ ... ]
-d Create a directory. Missing parent direc-
tories are created as required as in mkdir
-p. If the directory already exists, the
owner, group and mode will be set to the
values given on the command line.
> 2) What X install programs are you talking about? There aren't any
> permission problems with X that I'm aware of, short of the
> setuid/setgid requirements for certain programs which makes it
> difficult to install them as normal users.
setuid/setgid is *exactly* what I'm talking about.
When you use the '-d' option in combination with '-g' and/or '-o',
the "Missing parent directories are created as required" owned by
root (the options are useless for a non-root user) instead of by
the user/group specified by the other options.
Meanwhile, a number of the "install::" targets generated by the
Imake.rules file rules require that ownership be set correctly;
fonts, specifically, and suid/sgid executables for X games that
keep score files, more generally.
The current correct workaround is "mkdirhier", which is a kludge,
since it requires a full X and not just "imake" and the directory
"/usr/lib/X11/config".
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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