----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Meyering" <j...@meyering.net> To: "Gilles Espinasse" <g....@free.fr> Cc: "Pádraig Brady" <p...@draigbrady.com>; <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>; "Andreas Schwab" <sch...@linux-m68k.org>; "Eric Blake" <e...@byu.net> Sent: Saturday, November 21, 2009 7:11 PM Subject: Re: stable coreutils-8.1 today, fingers crossed
> Gilles Espinasse wrote: > > That was the explanation. > > I checked before the PATH before running make check and not inside pwd-long > > /path/to/coreutils/src is added at the beginning of PATH > > And /usr/src was writable by everyone. > > I fixed that. Then fail-eperm no more fail (did not find a file not owned by > > the user, so skip). > > But pwd-long still fail as coreutils-8.1 and src directories are writable by > > everyone. > > [chroot-i486] root:/usr/src$ tar xf cache/coreutils-8.1.tar.gz > > [chroot-i486] root:/usr/src$ ls -ld coreutils-8.1/src > > drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Nov 18 18:55 coreutils-8.1/src > > [chroot-i486] root:/usr/src$ ls -ld coreutils-8.1 coreutils-8.1/src > > drwxrwxrwx 13 root root 4096 Nov 18 18:55 coreutils-8.1 > > drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Nov 18 18:55 coreutils-8.1/src > > That is happening only to you -- because you have an unsafe umask of 0. > Don't do that! It is especially problematic when done by "root". > > Put this in one of your shell start-up scripts: > > umask 022 [chroot-i486] root:/$ umask 0022 [chroot-i486] root:/$ rm -rf /usr/src/coreutils* [chroot-i486] root:/$ cd /usr/src [chroot-i486] root:/usr/src$ tar xf cache/coreutils-8.1.tar.gz [chroot-i486] root:/usr/src$ ls -ld /usr /usr/src /usr/src/coreutils-8.1 /usr/src/coreutils-8.1/src drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Nov 21 13:10 /usr drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 Nov 21 20:16 /usr/src drwxrwxrwx 13 root root 4096 Nov 18 18:55 /usr/src/coreutils-8.1 drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Nov 18 18:55 /usr/src/coreutils-8.1/src don't know why Gilles
