[gobolinux-users] user permissions not gobo:gobo at some of /Programs directories&files

[Lucas C. Villa Real]

On 8/14/06, teique <teique at gmail.com> wrote:
> # suddenly I saw some of my files and directories at /Programs were not
> set as user:group to gobo:gobo..
> # then I was to check all with:
>
> find /Programs -not -user gobo -exec ls -ld "{}" \; >temp.txt
>
> # and I found some stuff:
> # my secondary user had permission to Firefox 1.5.0.1 files,
> # a strange numeric (big number) user and numeric group had permission
> to my open office 2.0 files,
> # fibo:fibo have permission to my KDE-PIM files (tho this one I "guess"
> is ok..)
> # my normal user had permission to one of the programs, I tested by
> removing the installed package and the downloaded package file (so I
> would get a fresh new download surely made by gobo root user) and
> issuing again as gobo: InstallPackage -k ...; and I checked the
> installed files and my normal user had permission to them again
>
> # just issue that "find" command to check your system.
>
> # my question is: should Compile, or SymlinkProgram or InstallPackage,
> check and set (or at least warn and ask) everything to gobo:gobo after
> the step "make install" or after unpacking a binary package for
> installation, etc. ?

Wild guess: I think these packages were downloaded in binary form from
their web pages and packaged "by hand", with no special attention
being paid to permissions. Both Compile and SymlinkProgram make use of
chown/chmod, so it won't happen for native GoboLinux packages or by
those Compile'd.

-- 
Lucas
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