On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 10:55:35 +0200, David Jansen wrote: > Am I missing something, or is this a bug in either yum or rpm (on Fedora > 8): > > Root's umask is set to 077, so files created by root are by default only > readable by root. Safest setting, so quite ok. > Now root runs an rpm or yum command to install or update files. Umask > setting is not used for the files extracted from the rpm, those get the > permissions as stored inside the package. Or not -- in case of unowned directories, which are not listed in a package's files list. These will be unreadable by normal users because of your restrictive umask. > But root's umask appears to be > in effect for the scripts that run from the rpm. [...] > So, should I report this as a bug, or is it known, or perhaps already > solved somehow? If there isn't an open ticket anymore, open a new one: http://bugz.fedoraproject.org/rpm It has been discussed years ago, and as a result some packagers run "umask 022" at the beginning of their scriptlets as a work-around. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
