Re: [Bug] setup regression #2

2023-02-02 Thread Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps
On 20/11/2022 17:16, Jon Turney wrote: On 13/11/2022 12:47, Achim Gratz wrote: The problem is actually a more knotty than you seem to think: prominently ca-certificates and man-db get their knickers in a twist when the group during post-install is different from the group of the installed files

Re: [Bug] setup regression #2

2022-12-01 Thread Achim Gratz
Christian Franke writes: > Anything installed with "All Users" option should IMO be protected > against modifications by any regular non-elevated user. Yes. > This is not the case if the RID=513 group ("HOST\None", > "DOMAIN\Domain-Users") is used. Many upstream projects install > directories

Re: [Bug] setup regression #2

2022-11-30 Thread Christian Franke
Jon Turney wrote: On 20/11/2022 19:05, Achim Gratz wrote: Jon Turney writes: I believe that the intent of the code in setup is that there should only be two modes: USER: install "for me", with the users primary group As I understand it, the intention here was that the user can have a

Re: [Bug] setup regression #2

2022-11-29 Thread Jon Turney
On 20/11/2022 19:05, Achim Gratz wrote: Jon Turney writes: I believe that the intent of the code in setup is that there should only be two modes: USER: install "for me", with the users primary group As I understand it, the intention here was that the user can have a "single user

Re: [Bug] setup regression #2

2022-11-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 21 13:39, ASSI wrote: > Corinna Vinschen writes: > > The idea is that the installation tree has POSIXy permissions and > > administrative users have the right to change stuff. The administrators > > group is part of the user's token if the process has been started > > elevated, so, to me,

Re: [Bug] setup regression #2

2022-11-21 Thread ASSI
Corinna Vinschen writes: > The idea is that the installation tree has POSIXy permissions and > administrative users have the right to change stuff. The administrators > group is part of the user's token if the process has been started > elevated, so, to me, this looks like a natural choice. As I

Re: [Bug] setup regression #2

2022-11-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 20 20:05, Achim Gratz wrote: > Jon Turney writes: > > I believe that the intent of the code in setup is that there should > > only be two modes: > > > > USER: install "for me", with the users primary group > > As I understand it, the intention here was that the user can have a > "single

Re: [Bug] setup regression #2

2022-11-20 Thread Achim Gratz
Jon Turney writes: > I believe that the intent of the code in setup is that there should > only be two modes: > > USER: install "for me", with the users primary group As I understand it, the intention here was that the user can have a "single user installation" in a place that they have access to

Re: [Bug] setup regression #2

2022-11-20 Thread Jon Turney
On 13/11/2022 12:47, Achim Gratz wrote: The problem is actually a more knotty than you seem to think: prominently ca-certificates and man-db get their knickers in a twist when the group during post-install is different from the group of the installed files and I suspect some other packages will

Re: [Bug] setup regression #2

2022-11-13 Thread Achim Gratz
Jon Turney writes: > On 08/10/2022 17:56, Achim Gratz wrote: >> I think that setup was essentially treating the install as "for this >> user only" since it was created and maintained by a script that can't >> affect that option and the fact it was also in group Adminsitroators >> didn't actually

Re: [Bug] setup regression #2

2022-11-09 Thread Achim Gratz
Jon Turney writes: > On 08/10/2022 17:56, Achim Gratz wrote: >> I think that setup was essentially treating the install as "for this >> user only" since it was created and maintained by a script that can't >> affect that option and the fact it was also in group Adminsitroators >> didn't actually

Re: [Bug] setup regression #2

2022-11-08 Thread Jon Turney
On 08/10/2022 17:56, Achim Gratz wrote: I think that setup was essentially treating the install as "for this user only" since it was created and maintained by a script that can't affect that option and the fact it was also in group Adminsitroators didn't actually register until now. Yeah, that

Re: [Bug] setup regression #2

2022-10-08 Thread Achim Gratz
Jon Turney writes: > On 03/10/2022 20:23, Achim Gratz wrote: >> Jon Turney writes: >>> This problem is with files created by setup, or by post-install scripts? >> I think both, although the problematic symlinks were created through >> alternatives. > > That's pretty baffling. Even more baffling

Re: [Bug] setup regression #2

2022-10-08 Thread Jon Turney
On 03/10/2022 20:23, Achim Gratz wrote: Jon Turney writes: This problem is with files created by setup, or by post-install scripts? I think both, although the problematic symlinks were created through alternatives. That's pretty baffling. I don't see how any of those commits would change

Re: [Bug] setup regression #2

2022-10-03 Thread Achim Gratz
Jon Turney writes: > This problem is with files created by setup, or by post-install scripts? I think both, although the problematic symlinks were created through alternatives. > (I'm not sure how these commits could have caused the former, if the > latter then reverting 45d8e84e "Drop group

Re: [Bug] setup regression #2

2022-10-01 Thread Jon Turney
On 22/09/2022 18:14, Achim Gratz wrote: The release_2.91 comes with another regression that still puzzles me. In a nutshell, the three commits that deal with setting up the groups during / after installation 2022-08-27 Jon Turney Drop setting root_scope as a side-effect of

[Bug] setup regression #2

2022-09-22 Thread Achim Gratz
The release_2.91 comes with another regression that still puzzles me. In a nutshell, the three commits that deal with setting up the groups during / after installation 2022-08-27 Jon Turney Drop setting root_scope as a side-effect of read_mounts() 2022-08-16 Jon Turney