Thanks Sebastien, and Chiradeep,

I've already push a commit to remove the code.
If someone explain the reason why we need it, I'll revert my code or
make additional patch.

2014-06-02 11:02 GMT-06:00 Chiradeep Vittal <[email protected]>:
> No idea, but +1 on removing it.
>
> From: Sebastien Goasguen <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
> Date: Monday, June 2, 2014 at 12:16 AM
> To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" 
> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, Alex Huang 
> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, Chiradeep Vittal 
> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
> Subject: Re: Why does cloudstack-setup-management make /root writable?
>
>
> On May 31, 2014, at 11:14 AM, Milamber 
> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> A related ticket has been open in Jira
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-6673
>
> Let me copy Alex and Chiradeep, they might have some background about this.
>
> Le 31/05/2014 08:27, ilya musayev a ecrit :
> I really dont know why. I guess we can figure out who made the commit and ask 
> for rationale on this, but i'm not aware of any reason why /root must be 777. 
> Big security hole in  my opinion.
> I'd say to give it a try in your env first, if your tests pass, commit.
> On 5/31/14, 12:06 AM, Yoshikazu Nojima wrote:
> Hi,
> Does anyone know the reason why cloudstack-setup-management make /root
> directory mode 777 in ubuntu?
> https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/blob/master/python/lib/cloudutils/serviceConfig.py#L767
> If no one have objection, I will remove this code.
> Regards,
> Noji
>
>

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