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Re: [Chicken-users] chmod a+rw indeed
From: |
felix winkelmann |
Subject: |
Re: [Chicken-users] chmod a+rw indeed |
Date: |
Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:22:32 +0100 |
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 1:04 PM, felix winkelmann <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Drake Wilson <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Sorry for the short pre-message research time, but this seems bogus
>> enough to warrant it. I just built Chicken 3.4.0 from source in
>> /usr/local/src/chicken-3.4.0 on Debian GNU/Linux x86_64 ("sid"), and
>> at the end of the [make install] output, I see:
>>
>> $ sudo make PLATFORM=linux PREFIX=/usr/local USE_HOST_PCRE=yes install
>> [...]
>> chmod a+rw chicken csi \
>> csc chicken-profile
>> chmod a+rw chicken-setup
>>
>> Uh. Why is this making the executables world-writable? Who said I
>> wanted other UIDs on this machine to be able to write to those files?
>> It seems like a pretty bad idea to be doing that without user consent,
>> or at the very least a prominent notice!
>>
>> A few searches on chicken.wiki.br, the Web, and the user manual turn
>> up nothing relevant about "world-writable" or "chmod a+rw", so here I
>> post.
>>
>
> Thanks for reporting this. I changed the invocation to use 0644 instead.
>
744, 744 (whack!)
cheers,
felix