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

[Andy Feldman]

On 8/14/06, teique <teique at gmail.com> wrote:
> it could be simple like show a list of all files (and directories even
> topmost parents at /Programs ex.: ./Festival) that are not set to
> gobo:gobo and ask if they should be chown properly, so we can make a
> fast review b4 concluding symlinkprogram execution?

More important here is to check it before CreatePackage, so packages
don't enter the store with odd permissions and ownership. But you're
right that SymlinkProgram might want to make the same call: it checks
your work after you manually put a program into the /Programs tree.

> well, I dunno if all files/directories should be really gobo:gobo, my
> guess is yes, they should,
> tho that fibo:fibo of KDE-PIM dont seem wrong, but I believe if I set it
> to gobo:gobo would cause no problems and I am almost doing so :)

As I understand it, fibo is only used during the installation process,
so any references left that stick around are mistakes. Can someone
with more knowledge tell me whether this is correct?

> I mean, symlinkprogram shouldnt even ask, at most say that some files
> were chown properly and only if user add a -verbose option when calling
> it, as "chown gobo:gobo * -R" is really fast :)
>
> just a suggestion of course :)
> its not so bad to cd /Programs and "chown gobo:gobo * -R" from time to
> time :)

I intentionally leave my Firefox/1.5 tree owned by a normal user, so
the built-in autoupdate functionality works. (This means my version
folder has to be the unspecific 1.5 instead of changing for each
update, but it allows me to get security updates automatically as soon
as they are available, without having to run Firefox as a superuser.)
Also, (I believe) some programs deliberately set the ownership of
their files to an unprivileged user for security reasons. I don't
think you can assume that the entire /Programs tree should be
gobo:gobo...

-Andy