Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3336 mails)

[Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 07 December 2005 11:48, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
> Anders Johansson wrote:
> > On Wednesday 07 December 2005 01:19, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
> >> Only root can install in those directories.
> >
> > What gave you that idea? It's certainly not true on a default system.
> > Those directories are rwxrwxrwt
>
> Not on my 9.3.  That is the default as long as I can remember.
> joe@jmorris:~> ls -l /usr/src/packages/
> total 20
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2005-03-20 01:44 BUILD
> drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 4096 2005-05-16 05:21 RPMS
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2005-03-20 01:44 SOURCES
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2005-03-20 01:44 SPECS
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2005-03-20 01:44 SRPMS
> joe@jmorris:~> rpm -qf /usr/src/packages/SPECS
> rpm-4.1.1-208.2
> Only root has write privilege.

Nope. That is what you get if you select permissions "secure". The default is, 
and has always been since they started the permissions thing, "easy", and 
that gets you rwxrwxrwt