[gentoo-user] /usr/share/config permissions

2009-01-20 Thread Dirk Uys 
Hi

What are the permission supposed to be for the /usr/share/config directory?

On my system only root had access to this directory causing kdm to
fail when it tries to run /usr/share/kdm/Xsession. I fixed the error
by changing the permission with chmod a+rx /usr/share/config. Are
/usr/share/config supposed to be readable by any user, or have I
opened up a big security whole on my system?

I saw a simular old bug about this with kde 3.3
(http://bugs.gentoo.org/65392) where the permissions of
/usr/kde/3.3/share/config/kdm/Xsession was wrong.

Regards
Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/share/config permissions

2009-01-20 Thread Philip Webb 
090120 Dirk Uys wrote:
 What are the permission supposed to be for the /usr/share/config directory?

I have :

  root:501 root ls -l /usr/share
  ...
  drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   112 2008-10-11 15:33 config

HTH

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Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/share/config permissions

2009-01-20 Thread Alejandro 
2009/1/20 Dirk Uys dirkc...@gmail.com

 Hi

 What are the permission supposed to be for the /usr/share/config directory?

 On my system only root had access to this directory causing kdm to
 fail when it tries to run /usr/share/kdm/Xsession. I fixed the error
 by changing the permission with chmod a+rx /usr/share/config. Are
 /usr/share/config supposed to be readable by any user, or have I
 opened up a big security whole on my system?

 I saw a simular old bug about this with kde 3.3
 (http://bugs.gentoo.org/65392) where the permissions of
 /usr/kde/3.3/share/config/kdm/Xsession was wrong.

 Regards
 Dirk

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Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/share/config permissions

2009-01-20 Thread Neil Bothwick 
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:10:11 +0200, Dirk Uys wrote:

 What are the permission supposed to be for the /usr/share/config
 directory?

755 here, on my ~amd64 and ~x86 machines, but 700 on my x86 MythTV
frontend. This directory belongs to several packages, so would have been
created by the first installed. It looks like at least one package is
setting it to 700.


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