Re: [Chicken-users] chmod a+rw indeed

[felix winkelmann]

Do'h


cheers,
felix

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 8:08 PM, Elf <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> um, changing to 644 is almost certainly incorrect for executables.  methinks
> you want 0755.
>
> -elf
>
> On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, felix winkelmann 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.
>>
>>
>> cheers,
>> felix
>>
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