On 28.05.2014 09:48, Alkis Georgopoulos wrote:
> Στις 26/05/2014 03:12 μμ, ο/η Derek Schuurman έγραψε:
>> Just a quick update regarding the file permissions issue I encountered
>> in /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/amd64/ -- I tracked the issue down to a
>> modified umask setting in /etc/login.defs. The umask settings were
>> changed to 027 so that the default file permissions prevent users from
>> being able to read files in other peoples home folders. Unfortunately
>> this had the undesired side-effect that the default file permissions of
>> the image files created by ltsp-update-image were no longer readable
>> either...
>>
>> The file permissions of the vmlinuz boot image file should always be
>> world-readable regardless of any changes in login.defs, no?  It seems
>> this problem could be averted in the future by simply adding a line to
>> the generate_image function in ltsp-update-image script to chmod o+r the
>> image file... Is this a change that might be useful to submit?
>>
> 
> 
> No, chmod wouldn't be useful,
> but setting umask to an appropriate value at the start of any LTSP 
> script that creates files (maybe in ltsp-server-common-functions) is a 
> topic that should be discussed by LTSP developers...
> 
> So, file a bug report in upstream LTSP about setting umask:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ltsp/

I already did a week ago: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ltsp/+bug/1320994
Please click "Affects me too" so the bug can go to "confirmed"!

Best regards,
Jakob

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