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Re: permission?

To: rollingblackout <thang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: permission?
From: Keith Owens <kaos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 17:17:09 +1000
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 21 Jul 2001 23:58:38 MST." <3B5A799E.894F1AE4@unixcircle.com>
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
On Sat, 21 Jul 2001 23:58:38 -0700, 
rollingblackout <thang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>A fresh install from SGI XFS 1.0.1 gives:
>
>[root@cafe /etc]# ls -lart|grep "\-rw-rw-rw-"
>-rw-rw-rw-    1 root     root           66 Jul 20 09:05 shells
>-rw-rw-rw-    1 root     root           85 Jul 20 09:10 modules.conf
>-rw-rw-rw-    1 root     root           94 Jul 20 23:53 resolv.conf
>-rw-rw-rw-    1 root     root          194 Jul 21 12:37 hosts
>
>Are these considered "normal"?  Any other place where world writable?

Which kernel?  There was a kernel bug from 2.4.3-pre5 until 2.4.7-pre7
where the initscripts ran with umask 000 instead of 022, that would
give the effect above.  It is fixed in the XFS CVS tree because that is
at 2.4.7, but the old releases might be bitten by this kernel bug.


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