configuration file permissions

[Olivier Fourdan]

Edscott,

xfce-mcs-manager doesn't use libxml2.

Cheers,
Olivier.

On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 20:38, edscott wilson garcia wrote:
> El jue, 17-07-2003 a las 12:34, Olivier Fourdan escribió:
> > Bernhard,
> > 
> > Hey, you're right! That's a bug.
> 
> It seems a libxml2 bug. To work around I've simple added a 
> chmod(rcfile,0644); after writing the configuration in xffm. The other
> modules could be fixed likewise.
> 
> saludos
> 
> Edscott
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Olivier.
> > 
> > On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 19:16, Bernhard Walle wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > following issue: the configuration (XML) files created by xfce have
> > > executable permissions:
> > > 
> > > [~/.xfce4/settings] $ ll
> > > insgesamt 52k
> > > -rwx------    1 bwalle   users         417 12. Jul 13:07 backdrop.xml
> > > -rwx------    1 bwalle   users         610 17. Jul 09:40 gtk.xml
> > > -rwx------    1 bwalle   users         278  4. Jul 10:57 keyboard.xml
> > > -rw-r--r--    1 bwalle   users           8  1. Jul 20:35 ls-iconbox.txt
> > > -rwx------    1 bwalle   users         920  1. Jul 20:36 ls-iconbox.xml
> > > -rwx------    1 bwalle   users         337 17. Jul 17:10 margins.xml
> > > -rwx------    1 bwalle   users         340 17. Jul 09:40 mouse.xml
> > > -rwx------    1 bwalle   users         424 14. Jul 21:47 session.xml
> > > -rwx------    1 bwalle   users         453 15. Jul 09:37 taskbar.xml
> > > -rwx------    1 bwalle   users         232 17. Jul 17:10 workspaces.xml
> > > -rw-r--r--    1 bwalle   users         135 17. Jul 17:10 xfce-settings.xml
> > > -rwx------    1 bwalle   users        1.0k 28. Jun 13:49 xffm.xml
> > > -rwx------    1 bwalle   users        1.2k  4. Jul 13:52 xfwm4.xml
> > > 
> > > Why? The problem is that some file managers (including xffm) try to
> > > execute this files instead of opening them in a text editor.
> > > 
> > > I think the permissions should be 666 & umask, i.e. 644 in a normal
> > > environment with umask 0022.
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > Bernhard
> 
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