On Thu, 2016-01-21 at 01:33 +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> Since the new version:
> $ beep
> bash: /usr/bin/beep: Permission denied
>
> even though:
> $ groups
> ... cdrom floppy audio video users
I'm seeing the same issue on my system. It looks like the problem is
that /usr/bin/beep is no longer owned by group audio, so the group
execute permission set based on the debconf choice is irrelevant. For
comparison:
$ dpkg -c beep_1.3-3+b1_amd64.deb | grep bin/beep
-rwxr-xr-x root/audio 10080 2012-06-24 05:28 ./usr/bin/beep
$ dpkg -c beep_1.3-4_amd64.deb | grep bin/beep
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 11112 2016-01-17 06:56 ./usr/bin/beep
Thanks,
Kevin
P.S. It also appears that the code which calls chmod in postinst is
duplicated. You could combine the conditional into a single branch by
combining
if pathfind dpkg-statoverride ; then
if ! dpkg-statoverride --list /usr/bin/beep >/dev/null ; then
into
if ! pathfind dpkg-statoverride || \
! dpkg-statoverride --list /usr/bin/beep >/dev/null ; then
then removing the duplicated else block. (If you wanted to cut down
on code, you could also replace `pathfind` with `command -v` and
remove the pathfind function.)
P.P.S. Sorry to pile on, but one other thing that I noticed while
investigating is that Vcs-Git appears to be out of date (since
git://git.deb.at/pkg/beep.git only contains up to 1.3-3). You may
want to fix that as well. Thanks again!
