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Re: Bad permissions with SGI XFS 1.01 Redhat 7.1 install

To: Ray Muno <muno@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Bad permissions with SGI XFS 1.01 Redhat 7.1 install
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 11:29:16 -0500
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
References: <20011001112251.A21559@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
Ray Muno wrote:
> 
> We are installing Redhat 7.1 SGI XFS 1.01 on various machines.  We have
> noticed that there are quite a few system files with wide open permissions.

> This is not an issue with Redhat 7.1 directly. It does not exhibit this
> behavior.  I opened a bug report with Redhat and they said it is an issue
> with the SGI installer.

This is a known issue with an available work-around, please see

ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download/Release-1.0.1/installer/00-SECURITY-WARNING-README

Thanks,

-Eric
-- 
Eric Sandeen      XFS for Linux     http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
sandeen@xxxxxxx   SGI, Inc.


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