Debian bug report logs - #1682 serious permissions problems with base discs Package: base ; Reported by: Austin Donnelly ; 16 days old. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message received at debian-bugs: From chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk!ijackson Sat Oct 21 10:22:07 1995 Return-Path: Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0t6hcU-000B3lC; Sat, 21 Oct 95 10:22 PDT Received: from artemis.chu.cam.ac.uk by pixar.com with SMTP id AA19729 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Sat, 21 Oct 1995 10:13:35 -0700 Received: from chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk by artemis.chu.cam.ac.uk with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #33) id m0t6hUV-0007uOC; Sat, 21 Oct 95 18:13 BST Received: by chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk id m0t6hUJ-0002b6C (Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.33); Sat, 21 Oct 95 18:13 BST Message-Id: Date: Sat, 21 Oct 95 18:13 BST From: ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: and1000@cam.ac.uk (Austin Donnelly) Cc: Debian bugs submission address Subject: Bug#1682: Re: permissions on directories In-Reply-To: References: Austin Donnelly writes ("permissions on directories"): > Remember the fiasco with /usr/sbin being world writeable? > > Well, I tracked it down: I had a look at the base discs I installed, and > what do I find: > /usr/lib/kbd > /usr/lib/terminfo > /usr/lib/terminfo/c > /usr/lib/terminfo/l > /usr/lib/zoneinfo > /usr/doc > /usr/sbin > are all world writeable. > > So it wasn't me playing silly buggers - it was the 3 base discs! > > Austin (feeling righteous:) Don't tell me, tell debian-bugs :-). I've added the number of your original bug report to the Subject and CC'd this message there. Bruce: I trust that the latest disks don't have this problem. Do we know how this happened ? Ian. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Acknowledgement sent to ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) : Extra info received and forwarded. Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Information forwarded to debian-devel@pixar.com : Bug#1682 ; Package base . Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message received at debian-bugs: From simons-rock.edu!jimr Sun Oct 15 17:59:05 1995 Return-Path: Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0t4dtQ-00063aC; Sun, 15 Oct 95 17:59 PDT Received: from plato.simons-rock.edu by pixar.com with SMTP id AA28478 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Sun, 15 Oct 1995 17:58:37 -0700 Received: from simons-rock.edu by plato.simons-rock.edu with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #1) id m0t4dsM-0003JkC; Sun, 15 Oct 95 20:57 EDT Message-Id: To: Austin Donnelly Cc: debian-bugs@Pixar.com Subject: Re: Bug#1682: serious permissions problems with base discs In-Reply-To: Message from Austin Donnelly of "Mon, 16 Oct 1995 01:40:57 BST." Date: Sun, 15 Oct 1995 20:57:56 -0400 From: "James A. Robinson" > /usr/sbin > /usr/lib/terminfo > /usr/lib/terminfo/l > /usr/lib/terminfo/c > /usr/lib/zoneinfo > /usr/lib/kbd > > Of these, /usr/lib/zoneinfo is still world-writable in the base disc > set. I don't see how the directories could have changed permissions, > and no, I haven't been throwing bits of my filesystem around. Well, you must have done something different then me, because my new installation on a box here shows the following perms, with only zoneinfo having a problem: drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 1024 Sep 20 09:36 /usr/lib/kbd drwxr-xr-x 64 root root 1024 Sep 22 09:44 /usr/lib/terminfo drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 Sep 22 09:43 /usr/lib/terminfo/c drwxrwxrwx 20 root root 1024 Sep 20 09:36 /usr/lib/zoneinfo drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 3072 Sep 23 10:11 /usr/sbin The above machine was installed with base disks from 2 weeks ago, and the packages available then. Have the base disks been updated since then? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Acknowledgement sent to "James A. Robinson" : Extra info received and forwarded. Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Information forwarded to debian-devel@pixar.com : Bug#1682 ; Package base . Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message received at debian-bugs: From thor.cam.ac.uk!and1000 Sun Oct 15 17:41:02 1995 Return-Path: Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0t4dby-00063aC; Sun, 15 Oct 95 17:41 PDT Received: from hammer.thor.cam.ac.uk by pixar.com with SMTP id AA28084 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Sun, 15 Oct 1995 17:40:38 -0700 Received: by hammer.thor.cam.ac.uk (Smail-3.1.29.0 #77) id m0t4dbt-000JfVC; Mon, 16 Oct 95 01:40 BST Sender: and1000@thor.cam.ac.uk (Austin Donnelly) Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 01:40:57 +0100 (BST) From: Austin Donnelly X-Sender: and1000@hammer.thor.cam.ac.uk To: debian-bugs@pixar.com Subject: serious permissions problems with base discs Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Package: base Version: 0.93.6-5 I've just run cops on my system, to find that a few key directories were world-writable. Namely: /usr/sbin /usr/lib/terminfo /usr/lib/terminfo/l /usr/lib/terminfo/c /usr/lib/zoneinfo /usr/lib/kbd Of these, /usr/lib/zoneinfo is still world-writable in the base disc set. I don't see how the directories could have changed permissions, and no, I haven't been throwing bits of my filesystem around. Austin ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Acknowledgement sent to Austin Donnelly : New bug report received and forwarded. Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Report forwarded to debian-devel@pixar.com : Bug#1682 ; Package base . Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Jackson / iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk , with the debian-bugs tracking mechanism This page last modified 07:43:01 GMT Wed 01 Nov