Whilst we're at it, shouldn't /var be writable to admin too (according
to the web site.)?
Cheers,
Ben
Tim Sellar wrote:
>
> You are quite right. Have just checked and the ownership of /usr/local is
> being set to root.root. It should always be set to admin.admin - I'll see
> about getting the changes made. When building from source vs owners can then
> install under /usr/local, which is fairly standard practice for most
> packages.
>
> Tim
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gary Reid
> > (cars-sold)
> > Sent: 01 June 2001 10:09
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: directory ownership and permissions
> >
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > we are testing a straight rpm install using the pre-built skel and the VS
> > admins are finding they cannot compile any software, majordomo etc because
> > none of the USR directories have the correct permissions - basically admin
> > can write to home, root and tmp.
> >
> > Below is the root folder showing the ownership of directories - is this as
> > per a standard pre-built skel or have we messed up somewhere?
> >
> > [admin@www /]$ ls -al
> > total 64
> > drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 May 29 15:55 .
> > drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 May 29 15:55 ..
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 5 11:23 bin
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 30 08:03 c
> > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 12288 May 26 11:57 dev
> > drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 May 29 17:20 etc
> > drwxr-xr-x 6 admin admin 4096 May 27 14:15 home
> > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 5 11:23 lib
> > dr-xr-xr-x 73 root root 0 May 29 17:20 proc
> > drwxr-xr-x 3 admin admin 4096 Jun 1 05:19 root
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 5 11:23 sbin
> > drwxrwxrwt 2 admin admin 4096 Jun 1 05:23 tmp
> > drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096 May 26 11:45 usr
> > drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 May 26 11:57 var
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > Gary
> >
