From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050416 Red Hat/1.0.3-1.4.1 Firefox/1.0.3 Description of problem: If you have your umask set to 0077 and try to install the realplayer RPM from the RHN, it creates a directory, /usr/lib/helix, that has permissions 0700. With these permissions, normal users cannot run realplayer. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): realplayer-10.0.4-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. set umask to 0077 2. run "up2date realplayer" (assuming you belong to the proper channel in RHN) 3. notice that /usr/lib/helix permissions are 0700 Actual Results: Realplayer is installed but the permissions on /usr/lib/helix are 0700. As a result, normal users cannot run realplayer. Expected Results: Realplayer should be installed and normal users should be able to run it (without modifying directory permissions as root). Additional info:
This bug is filed against RHEL 3, which is in maintenance phase. During the maintenance phase, only security errata and select mission critical bug fixes will be released for enterprise products. Since this bug does not meet that criteria, it is now being closed. For more information of the RHEL errata support policy, please visit: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/errata/ If you feel this bug is indeed mission critical, please contact your support representative. You may be asked to provide detailed information on how this bug is affecting you.
I reported this bug in April 2005 when RHEL 3 was still fully maintained (i.e. normal bug fixes were still being issued). There was no action for over two years, and now that RHEL 3 has entered maintenance phase, someone finally responds to tell me that it won't be fixed. This issue may in fact be fixed already; I don't know. But I do feel that it is very poor form to not respond for such a long time, and then only to respond that it won't be fixed because the product has entered maintenance mode.