Re: emacs installs a lot of 777 directories

On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 11:15 +0900, Randy Bush wrote:
foo.on.you:/usr/local/share# find . -type d -perm 777
./emacs/22.3/etc/tree-widget
./emacs/22.3/etc/tree-widget/folder
./emacs/22.3/etc/tree-widget/default
./emacs/22.3/etc/e
./emacs/22.3/etc/images
./emacs/22.3/etc/images/low-color
./emacs/22.3/etc/images/gnus
./emacs/22.3/etc/images/icons
./emacs/22.3/etc/images/gud
./emacs/22.3/etc/images/smilies
./emacs/22.3/etc/images/mail
./emacs/22.3/etc/images/ezimage
./emacs/22.3/lisp
./emacs/22.3/lisp/net
./emacs/22.3/lisp/progmodes
./emacs/22.3/lisp/calc
./emacs/22.3/lisp/emacs-lisp
./emacs/22.3/lisp/url
./emacs/22.3/lisp/emulation
./emacs/22.3/lisp/play
./emacs/22.3/lisp/erc
./emacs/22.3/lisp/term
./emacs/22.3/lisp/obsolete
./emacs/22.3/lisp/textmodes
./emacs/22.3/lisp/mail
./emacs/22.3/lisp/eshell
./emacs/22.3/lisp/calendar
./emacs/22.3/lisp/mh-e
./emacs/22.3/lisp/international
./emacs/22.3/lisp/gnus
./emacs/22.3/lisp/language
./emacs/22.3/leim/ja-dic
./emacs/22.3/leim/quail
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Could this simply be an over promiscuous umask being set when Emacs was
installed? ie. umask 000 rather than the default umask 022 for root?

I know I get warnings if attempting to install a package with a umask
077 which means no-one except the installer can access the files.

Do packages print a warning to screen if umask 000 is set?

Regards,
Daniel

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