Bug 73986 - 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 RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: htdig
Version: 8.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Phil Knirsch
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 16:51 UTC by Enrico Scholz
Modified: 2015-03-05 01:11 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Last Closed: 2002-10-04 12:18:02 UTC
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Description Enrico Scholz 2002-09-13 16:51:25 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 /var/www/cgi-bin /var/www/cgi-bin/htsearch
| file /var/www/cgi-bin is not owned by any package
| htdig-web-3.2.0-7.20020505

Perhaps it should require the virtual 'webserver' package.


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

htdig-web-3.2.0-7.20020505


How Reproducible:

100%


Steps to Reproduce:
1. umask 077
2. make sure that htdig-web is uninstalled completely
   (rm -rf /var/www/cgi-bin)
3. rpm -U htdig-web-3.2.0-7.20020505.i386.rpm
4. ls -l /var/www/cgi-bin
5. try to use the programs/scripts/libraries/data of the package as
   non-root user
6. rpm -e htdig-web-3.2.0-7.20020505

Actual Results:

* at 4:
  | drwx------    2 root     root         4096 Sep 13 18:44 /var/www/cgi-bin
* files can not be found/read at 5 and
* /var/www/cgi-bin still exists after 6.

Comment 1 Phil Knirsch 2002-12-10 17:17:23 UTC
Added new Requires: for the htdig-web package. Makes a lot of sense anyway.

Read ya, Phil


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