configuration file permissions

Jasper Huijsmans jasper at moongroup.com
Thu Jul 17 21:00:09 CEST 2003


The panel files are ok, and they do use libxml2. Not that I did anything
special to prevent them being made executable ...


On 17 Jul 2003 20:50:47 +0200
Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at xfce.org> wrote:

> 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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