On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Santiago Vila wrote: > > Could we please move the default to 755, not 2775, like every other > > "normal" directory in Debian? There is little point in keeping those > > directories world-writable if they stop being owned by group staff. > > The group for the directories can still be staff, it should just not > be writable by group staff by default [but configurable by users to > be, with that configuration respected.]
No need to add configuration stuff. If a user wants something different than the default, he/she can easily make a chown and a chgrp. > /usr/local isn't a normal subdirectory tree, as nothing should be > shipped in it by Debian packages. > > I had assumed that basefiles would do something like the following: > > 1) if group staff has non-root users: > - ask if /usr/local should be writable by staff > * yes: bail out; don't ask this question again > * no: continue to 2 Please, no. I try not to mix "base-files" and "ask" in the same sentence. Let's keep it simple: Beginning squeeze, base-files will no longer create those directories with special permissions. I think this respects the "principle of least surprise", as already created directories (from lenny) will be kept in whatever status they are. Note: Those directories are created only when base-files is first installed by debootstrap from debian-installer. If required, we can document that the default for squeeze has changed in the release notes for squeeze. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
