Quoting Giuseppe Ghibò <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > George White wrote: > > > Quoting Piet van Oostrum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > >>xdvizilla (in tetex-src-2.0.2/texk/xdvik/) appears to be missing the x > >>permission. > > > > > > On my linux system the x-permission was set (by install -- the default is > > 755 which is why you need the -m 644 option to install documentation) when > the > > file was installed. Why does the permission in the source tree matter? > Are you > > using a funny version of install? > > > > Speaking of permissions, Mandrake's msec security tool noticed a few world > > writable files/directories in the main texmf tree: > > > > texmf/fonts/pk > > texmf/fonts/pk/ljfour > > texmf/fonts/pk/ljfour/jknappen > > texmf/fonts/pk/ljfour/jknappen/ec > > texmf/fonts/pk/ljfour/jknappen/tc > > texmf/fonts/pk/ljfour/public > > texmf/fonts/pk/ljfour/public/dstroke > > texmf/ls-R > > texmf/web2c/mf.base > > texmf/web2c/mf.log > > > > which version? And are you sure is main texmf tree and not in /var/lib/texmf? > As in /var/lib/texmf to allow users to generate on the fly the PK fonts. On > main texmf tree, i.e. /usr/share/texmf there shouldn't be such files, unless > maybe you are running tex as root.
Version 2.0.2, main texmf tree, installed and run from ordinary user login. In version 2.0.1, only texmf/ls-R ended up with world-write permission.
