On Tuesday 23 September 2008, Eric Wilhelm wrote:
> # from Shlomi Fish
>
> # on Monday 22 September 2008 23:55:
> >> There would be no "mechanism" because tar respects the umask by
> >> default when invoked as a non-root user. Thus, there are no
> >> world-writable files being unpacked from CPAN dists on my machine.
> >>
> >> Is a umask of 022 not the default setup? Shlomi?
> >
> >The default Mandriva umask appears to be 0002 . I have the following
> > line in my default user's .bashrc:
> >
> >{{{
> >umask 022
> >}}}
>
> So, how are those files being created with world-writable permissions?
That's what my smoke configuration gives me in user "cpan".
> You are running smokes as this user or as root?
I'm running smokes as a different user altogether (= "cpan") which still has
the 0002 umask. I only explicitly set the umask to 0022 on user "shlomi",
which is the user I'm doing most of my work in.
> You are using tar or
> something else?
See for yourself:
https://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/web-cpan/CPAN-Smoke-AutoSetup/trunk/first-rev/
>
> Even with the 0002 it would only set the group write bit.
>
Interesting.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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