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From: Alejandro <elcorreodeale@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/share/config permissions
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:29:31
Message-Id: 60a795cd0901200926l4e266171yc54ecb856db1e519@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] /usr/share/config permissions by Dirk Uys
1 2009/1/20 Dirk Uys <dirkcuys@×××××.com>
2
3 > Hi
4 >
5 > What are the permission supposed to be for the /usr/share/config directory?
6 >
7 > On my system only root had access to this directory causing kdm to
8 > fail when it tries to run /usr/share/kdm/Xsession. I fixed the error
9 > by changing the permission with chmod a+rx /usr/share/config. Are
10 > /usr/share/config supposed to be readable by any user, or have I
11 > opened up a big security whole on my system?
12 >
13 > I saw a simular old bug about this with kde 3.3
14 > (http://bugs.gentoo.org/65392) where the permissions of
15 > /usr/kde/3.3/share/config/kdm/Xsession was wrong.
16 >
17 > Regards
18 > Dirk
19 >
20 > 755