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Bug 74041

Summary:	metacity should own more directories
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Enrico Scholz <rh-bugzilla>
Component:	metacity	Assignee:	Havoc Pennington <hp>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	8.0	Keywords:	EasyFix, Triaged
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~ensc/dircheck/null/packages.html#metacity-2.4.0.91-2
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Bug Blocks:	79579, 100644

Description Enrico Scholz 2002-09-13 20:34:28 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 the package because orphaned
directories will remaining.


| $ rpm -qf /usr/share/gnome/wm-properties /usr/share/gnome/wm-properties/metacity.desktop
| file /usr/share/gnome/wm-properties is not owned by any package
| metacity-2.4.0.91-2

(Please visit the given URL for a complete list of affected directories)


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

metacity-2.4.0.91-2


How Reproducible: 100%


Steps to Reproduce:
0. make a minimal installation
1. umask 077
2. make sure that metacity is uninstalled completely
   (rm -rf /usr/share/gnome/wm-properties)
3. rpm -U metacity-2.4.0.91-2.i386.rpm
4. ls -l /usr/share/gnome/wm-properties
5. try to use the programs/scripts/libraries/data of the package as
   non-root user
6. rpm -e metacity-2.4.0.91-2


Actual Results:

* at 4:
  | drwx------    2 root     root         4096 Sep 13 22:27 /usr/share/gnome/wm-properties
* files can not be found/read at 5 and
* /usr/share/gnome/wm-properties still exists after 6.

Comment 1 Dan Williams 2003-09-10 21:33:05 UTC

wm-properties is no longer in metacity package.