Control: tag -1 + moreinfo Hi,
Quoting Johannes Schauer (2020-01-22 21:40:49) > Quoting Benjamin Drung (2020-01-22 13:23:36) > > Am Mittwoch, den 22.01.2020, 13:13 +0100 schrieb Johannes Schauer: > > > Quoting Benjamin Drung (2020-01-22 12:58:38) > > > > when I set TMPDIR to a directory that has mode 0755, mmdebstrap > > > > will fail: > > > > > > > > ``` > > > > $ ls -ld . > > > > drwxr-xr-x 3 bdrung bdrung 80 Jan 22 12:43 . > > > > $ TMPDIR=$(pwd) mmdebstrap buster buster.tar.xz > > > > I: automatically chosen mode: unshare > > > > > > you are using the unshare mode. This means that your temporary > > > directory needs > > > to be accessible by the unshared user. Evidently it is not. I don't > > > think there > > > is anything that mmdebstrap can do about it. > > > > mmdebstrap could create a temporary directory, change the mode to 1777 and > > let unshare use that, couldn't it? > > but that's not where the error comes from. From the output you posted in your > report it seems like mmdebstrap is not able to create the temporary directory > at all. Obviously it cannot change permissions of something that doesn't > exist. > I don't think mmdebstrap should attempt touching the permissions of the > $TMPDIR > directory. > > Also: the sticky bit probably has no influence on whether or not you get the > "permission denied" error, right? any update on this issue? Thanks! cheers, josch
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