[debbugs-tracker] bug#22432: closed (owner, group and mode options are only applied to the deepest directory)

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> Fri, 22 Jan 2016 12:42:05 +0100
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> Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)
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> Package: coreutils
> Version: 8.21
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> When 'install' creates nested directories the options for owner,group and mode
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> Example, when I run as root :
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> install -o "www-data" -g "models" --mode=2775 -d /tmp/00/00/00/00
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> ls -la /tmp/00/00/00/00
> drwxrwsr-x 2 www-data models 4096 Jan 21 16:38 .
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root     root   4096 Jan 21 16:38 ..
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> This shows that /tmp/00/00/00/ is owned by root:root and has 755 as permissions.
> The same holds for the just created /tmp/00/00/ and /tmp/00/ .
> Only /tmp/00/00/00/00/ is correct.
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> All created directories should get the given owner,group and mode options.
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> System: Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS
> GNU coreutils 8.21 (deb 8.21-1ubuntu5.3 amd64)
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> -- Hans Lambermont
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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: bug#22432: owner, group and mode options are only applied to the deepest directory Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 09:45:13 -0700 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.0

tag 22432 notabug
thanks

On 01/22/2016 04:42 AM, Hans Lambermont wrote:
> Package: coreutils
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> When 'install' creates nested directories the options for owner,group and mode
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Thanks for the report, but this is documented.  Per 'info install':

   • If the ‘--directory’ (‘-d’) option is given, ‘install’ creates each
     DIRECTORY and any missing parent directories.  Parent directories
     are created with mode ‘u=rwx,go=rx’ (755), regardless of the ‘-m’
     option or the current umask.  *Note Directory Setuid and Setgid::,
     for how the set-user-ID and set-group-ID bits of parent directories
     are inherited.

If you want to create parent directories with specific permissions, you
have to do multiple invocations.

As such, I'm closing this as not a bug, but feel free to add further
comments to this thread.

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