Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 13:04:24 +0900 From: Daniel Marsh <jahilliya@gmail.com> To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: emacs installs a lot of 777 directories Message-ID: <1236312264.7184.1.camel@yog-sothoth.rlyeh> In-Reply-To: <m2iqmnxupl.wl%randy@psg.com> References: <m2iqmnxupl.wl%randy@psg.com>
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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 > ./emacs/22.3/etc/e > ./emacs/22.3/etc/images > ./emacs/22.3/etc/images/low-color > ./emacs/22.3/etc/images/gnus > ./emacs/22.3/etc/images/icons > ./emacs/22.3/etc/images/gud > ./emacs/22.3/etc/images/smilies > ./emacs/22.3/etc/images/mail > ./emacs/22.3/etc/images/ezimage > ./emacs/22.3/lisp > ./emacs/22.3/lisp/net > ./emacs/22.3/lisp/progmodes > ./emacs/22.3/lisp/calc > ./emacs/22.3/lisp/emacs-lisp > ./emacs/22.3/lisp/url > ./emacs/22.3/lisp/emulation > ./emacs/22.3/lisp/play > ./emacs/22.3/lisp/erc > ./emacs/22.3/lisp/term > ./emacs/22.3/lisp/obsolete > ./emacs/22.3/lisp/textmodes > ./emacs/22.3/lisp/mail > ./emacs/22.3/lisp/eshell > ./emacs/22.3/lisp/calendar > ./emacs/22.3/lisp/mh-e > ./emacs/22.3/lisp/international > ./emacs/22.3/lisp/gnus > ./emacs/22.3/lisp/language > ./emacs/22.3/leim/ja-dic > ./emacs/22.3/leim/quail > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-security@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-security-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" 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? I know I get warnings if attempting to install a package with a umask 077 which means no-one except the installer can access the files. Do packages print a warning to screen if umask 000 is set? Regards, Daniel
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