Bug 33257 – only root can read rpm database after update to rpm 4.0.2

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Bug 33257 - only root can read rpm database after update to rpm 4.0.2

Summary:	only root can read rpm database after update to rpm 4.0.2

Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	rpm (Show other bugs)
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Version:	6.2
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity low
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Assigned To:	Jeff Johnson
QA Contact:	David Lawrence
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Reported:	2001-03-26 11:05 EST by Bobby de Vos
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:32 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2001-03-26 11:05:09 EST
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Description Bobby de Vos 2001-03-26 11:05:06 EST

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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.73 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-3 i686)


Upgraded to
  rpm-4.0.2-6x
  rpm-build-4.0.2-6x
  rpm-devel-4.0.2-6x
  rpm-python-4.0.2-6x
  db3-3.1.17-4.6x
  popt-1.6.2-6x

As root, I could run
   rpm -q rpm
but not as a user. I fixed the problem by running
    chmod 644  /var/lib/rpm/*


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. rpm -ivh db3-3.1.17-4.6x.i386.rpm
2. rpm -Fvh rpm-*4.0.2*
3. rpm -Fvh popt-1.6.2-6x.i386.rpm 
4. rpm --rebuilddb
5. rpm -q rpm # as a user fails
	

Actual Results:  error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Permission
denied (13)


Expected Results:  rpm-4.0.2-6x

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2001-03-26 11:15:00 EST

Check root's umask setting,  rpm does not do anything special with directory or
file permissions, other than to sugeest default values of 755 and 644, but those
values are modified by the umask in operation at the time.

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