Greetings, Shaddy Baddah! > I expect that there wasn't any explicit reasoning behind this, but > rebase creates a db with permissions that are too restrictive. To me > anyway, as I cannot see any danger in the db being readable by all.
> This snippet describes it: > <snip> > $ whoami > sbaddah > $ od -c /etc/rebase.db.x86_64 > od: /etc/rebase.db.x86_64: Permission denied > $ ls -l /etc/rebase.db.x86_64 > -rw-rw---- 1 portapps None 86020 Nov 11 15:34 /etc/rebase.db.x86_64 > </snip> > I've attached an untested patch that would allow at least world readable > perms. It would be appreciated if it was applied :-) There's no reason or need for this file to be world readable. Even more, I think the fact that there's group access perms is a consequence of shallow translation of ACLs to POSIX permissions, given the group name and the fact you're unable to access the file. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@yandex.ru) 17.11.2014, <11:16> Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
