Jack Coates grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 12:26, Vincent Danen wrote:
> > On Wed Jul 23, 2003 at 11:56:14AM -0700, David Guntner wrote:
> >
> > > I hope someone from Mandrake is still reading this list. I got the
> > > advisary for the new kernel in my mail, and installed the new kernel.
> > > Since, then, any number of processes which used to write files that were
> > > writable only by themselves (leafnode as user news, mailman as user mail
> > > and so on) are now writing their files in a world readable setting. My
> > > security logs this morning started reporting files in /var/spool/news,
> > > /var/lock/subsys, /var/run, /var/lib/mailman/lists and so on as being
> > > writable. Checking those directories, I find sure enough that everything
> > > is -rw-rw-rw- -- clearly, this is not acceptable! Can someone please
> > > look into this and fix it and issue a new kernel? This needs to not
> > > continue to happen. When I su to the user IDs in question and do a umask
> > > command, I see 0022 like it should be - so I can't see any reason why this
> > > should be happening.
> >
> > We've not seen this at all during testing. Which kernel did you install?
> > secure, up, smp, etc... uname -a would be good.
>
> Also, what are the filesystems in question? Unfortunately my mirrors in
> GMT-8 still haven't caught up so I can't do any verification yet.
Assuming I understand your question correctly, I'm using ReiserFS for all
filesystems except /boot, which is ext2.
If that wasn't your question, please clarify. :-)
--Dave
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