ports/139637: wipe port fails dealing with file permissions
Christoph Weber-Fahr
cwf-ml at arcor.de
Thu Oct 15 09:40:02 UTC 2009
>Number: 139637
>Category: ports
>Synopsis: wipe port fails dealing with file permissions
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-ports-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
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>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Thu Oct 15 09:40:00 UTC 2009
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Christoph Weber-Fahr
>Release: 6.4-RELEASE-p3 i386
>Organization:
Vodafone AG
>Environment:
FreeBSD xxx.xxx.arcor.de 6.4-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE-p3 #1: Wed Mar 4 21:36:49 CET 2009 wefa at xxx.xxx.arcor.de:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386
>Description:
according to its manpage wipe can deal with mssing w permissions if it has to - wipe -f should fortce file deletions. In reality, it just throws the same error message: wipe: cannot open `testfile2': Permission denied
>How-To-Repeat:
wefa at nxcon 11:27 [~/test]chmod ugo=rx testfile2
wefa at nxcon 11:27 [~/test]wipe testfile1
wefa at nxcon 11:27 [~/test]wipe testfile2
wipe: cannot open `testfile2': Permission denied
wefa at nxcon 11:27 [~/test]wipe -f testfile2
wipe: cannot open `testfile2': Permission denied
wefa at nxcon 11:27 [~/test]ls -al
total 232
drwxr-xr-x 2 wefa wheel 1024 Oct 15 11:28 .
drwxr-xr-x 58 wefa wheel 5120 Jul 30 20:35 ..
-r-xr-xr-x 1 wefa wheel 204800 Oct 15 11:27 testfile2
wefa at nxcon 11:27 [~/test]pkg_info | grep wipe
wipe-2.2.0 File and block device wiping utility
>Fix:
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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