Bug 14350

Summary:	incorrect file and directory permissions (reported by linuxconf)
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	John Cagle <john.cagle>
Component:	linuxconf	Assignee:	Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin>
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Description John Cagle 2000-07-21 00:39:30 UTC

3 files and 1 directory are installed with incorrect permissions (at least they don't
match what linuxconf thinks they should be.)

To reproduce:
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After a fresh beta3 installation, reboot and run linuxconf.
Don't change anything, just quit linuxconf and look at the
changes it wants to make.

Here are the files BEFORE running Linuxconf:

-rw-------    1 root     root          603 Jul  7 12:15 /etc/shadow
-r-sr-xr-x    1 root     root       372340 Jul  4 01:16 /usr/sbin/sendmail
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     mail         4096 Jul  7 12:27 /var/spool/mqueue
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       143676 Jun  5 15:51 /usr/sbin/pppd

First time run of linuxconf after installation says:

Changing permissions  of file /etc/shadow from 100600 to 100400
Changing permissions  of file /usr/sbin/sendmail from 104555 to 106755
Changing owner of file /var/spool/mqueue to root.root
Changing permissions  of file /usr/sbin/pppd from 100755 to 104755
Changing owner of file /var/spool/uucp to uucp.root

AFTER linuxconf applies the changes:

-r--------    1 root     root          603 Jul  7 12:15 /etc/shadow
-rwsr-sr-x    1 root     root       372340 Jul  4 01:16 /usr/sbin/sendmail
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Jul  7 12:27 /var/spool/mqueue
-rwsr-xr-x    1 root     root       143676 Jun  5 15:51 /usr/sbin/pppd

Comment 1 Michael Fulbright 2000-07-21 15:09:31 UTC

This is not an installer issue.

Comment 2 Glen Foster 2000-07-21 18:29:43 UTC

This defect is considered MUST-FIX for Winston Gold-release

Comment 3 Nalin Dahyabhai 2000-07-21 22:49:59 UTC

Except for /etc/shadow (which I think would probably benefit from
being read-only for root), all of these permissions should match the
installed system as of linuxconf-1.19r1-7 and later (beta 4).  Please
reopen this bug if you find this continues to be a problem.

Comment 4 John Cagle 2000-07-22 00:22:12 UTC

You are correct.  On beta4 everything cleared up except /etc/shadow.

So, I'd like to re-open this bug so that /etc/shadow can have the
proper permissions post-install.  They should be 100400, not 100600.

Should the bugzilla category change?

Comment 5 Nalin Dahyabhai 2000-07-23 20:55:15 UTC

Probably, but there are enough packages that modify that file to make
it hard to guess which one it's best filed against.

Comment 6 Tim Waugh 2000-07-27 12:37:43 UTC

*** Bug 13617 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2000-09-13 22:40:19 UTC

this should be fixed in the final release.