On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 05:30:50PM -0500, David Moreno Garza wrote: > On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 04:22, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 11:12:54AM +0200, Marcel Sebek wrote: > > > > linda -i /var/cache/pbuilder/result/atris_1.0.6-1_i386.changes > > > > W: atris; File /usr/games/atris has incorrect file permissions of 2755. > > > > The file shown above is in installed into a binary directory, which > > > > are currently known as /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, > > > > /usr/X11R6/bin and /usr/games, and it doesn't have permissions of > > > > rwxr-xr-x. > > > I don't know how to fix that if I want to have the game setgid games. > > > Maybe dpkg-statoverride? > > > > Noooooo. dpkg-statoverride is for local admin changes. You should ship the > > file with custom permissions, and put in a lintian override. > > Exactly. > > FWIW, I have a package, 'bastet', which I had the same setgid problem > for the high scores. I finally did something like: > > chown root.games debian/bastet/var/games/bastet.scores
Which, should of course be chown root:games ... Use of . can lead to nasty surprises with usernames that contains a `.' (valid character in a username). Of course, this is not the case here, but let's try to fix all occurences anyway, since a lot of coding is done by copy and modify or by example... Reference (especially the rationale is good reading): http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/chown.html Regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Northern lights wander (\ // Maintainer of the v2.0 kernel // Dance across the winter sky // \) http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/ (/ Full colour fire (/
