configuration file permissions
Olivier Fourdan
fourdan at xfce.org
Thu Jul 17 22:05:51 CEST 2003
Fixed in cvs.
Benny, S_IRWXU is read/write/execute for the user, (S_IWUSR | S_IRUSR)
is the correct value in our case.
Cheers,
Olivier.
On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 21:00, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> 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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