Re: [Ltib] Why world writeable install?

[Stuart Hughes]

Hi Svein,

There would have been some reason or corner case (maybe a distro issue). 
 To be honest I can't recall why that went it (it was back in 2005).  I 
agree with you that it would be better for it to be set to 0022.  I will 
try that way and if it does no harm I will check in the change to 
Savannah CVS.

Regards, Stuart

Svein Seldal wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I was curious of why the ltib/ installation directory is world writable. 
> My investigation shows that line 61 in the bin/ltib_install script
> actually sets the umask to 0. Why is that?
>
> In a Unix system you normally need very good reasons for having world
> writeable directories. Umask of 0022 or even 0002 is most common.
>
>
> - Svein
>
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