Bug 73980 - Does not work when installed with an umask of 077 and messes filesystem
Summary: Does not work when installed with an umask of 077 and messes filesystem
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: wvdial
Version: 8.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Harald Hoyer
QA Contact: David Lawrence
URL: http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~ensc/dirch...
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-09-13 16:33 UTC by Enrico Scholz
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:46 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-09-21 14:44:41 UTC
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Description Enrico Scholz 2002-09-13 16:33:40 UTC
Description of Problem:

Because this package contains unowned directories, they will be created
with the current umask. When having restrictive administrator settings
(umask 077) ordinary user will not have access to them and can not use
the package.

Another problem occurs when removing packages. Then orphaned directories
are remaining.

| $ rpm -qf /etc/ppp/peers /etc/ppp/peers/wvdial
| file /etc/ppp/peers is not owned by any package
| wvdial-1.53-7


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

wvdial-1.53-7


How Reproducible:

100%


Steps to Reproduce:
1. umask 077
2. make sure that wvdial is uninstalled completely
   (rm -rf /etc/ppp/peers)
3. rpm -U wvdial-1.53-7.i386.rpm
4. ls -l /etc/ppp/peers
5. try to use the programs/scripts/libraries/data of the package as
   non-root user
6. rpm -e wvdial-1.53-7

Actual Results:

* at 4:
  | drwx------    2 root     root         4096 Sep 13 18:29 /etc/ppp/peers
* files can not be found/read at 5 and
* /etc/ppp/peers still exists after 6.


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