From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.4-ac11-lys1 i686; en-US; rv:0.9+) Gecko/20010520 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
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.
Should be fixed in sgml-common-0.5-6.
*** Bug 54039 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***