Bug 41552

Summary:	SGML catalogs are not installed world-readable
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide	Reporter:	Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot>
Component:	sgml-common	Assignee:	Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Nicolas Mailhot 2001-05-21 10:29:17 UTC

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Description of problem:
For as long as I can remember RH installs SGML catalogs in mode 600.
That means only root can do any SGML editing !
These are not secret files ; these are ressource files ; everybody should
be able to read their contents

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install a new sgml catalog rpm
2. Try any sgml editing as a normal user (in psgml mode)
3. Try do validate your result

Read the + nsgmls:/etc/sgml/catalog:1:8:E: cannot open
"/etc/sgml/sgml-docbook-3.0.cat" ; message

Expected Results:  The validation should have proceeded normally without
any read error

Additional info:

It's a very old bug, I just got tired of changing the permissions after
every /usr/bin/install-catalog run

Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2001-05-21 10:34:37 UTC

I can't reproduce this here, but I think I see how it's happening.  
install-catalog isn't careful enough to set the permissions on files it 
creates, and so they just have default (umask-determined) permissions.  Root's 
default umask is 022, and so this works for most people.

install-catalog needs to chmod 0644 all the files that it creates.

Comment 2 Tim Waugh 2001-05-21 11:01:07 UTC

Should be fixed in sgml-common-0.5-6.

Comment 3 Tim Waugh 2001-09-26 11:47:31 UTC

*** Bug 54039 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***