deskutils/alexandria - why does it create a world readable and writable directory?

Ruslan Mahmatkhanov cvs-src at yandex.ru
Sat Jul 10 07:52:33 UTC 2010


29.06.2010 22:31, Torfinn Ingolfsen пишет:
> On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Ruslan Mahmatkhanov<cvs-src at yandex.ru>wrote:
>
>> 22.06.2010 22:54, Torfinn Ingolfsen пишет:
>>
>>   On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Torfinn Ingolfsen<tingox at gmail.com>
>>>   wrote:
>>>
>>>   Hei,
>>>> I just found deskutils/alexandria (0.6.5_3) and installed it. A very nice
>>>> program.
>>>> I have just one question: why does it create a directory (~/.alexandria)
>>>> with 777 permissions? Wouldn't it be more "correct" to use something like
>>>> 740 or even 750?
>>>> Note: all subdirectories of said directory have 755 permissions too.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> In case nobody noticed, Alexandria 0.6.6 is ready now:
>>> http://alexandria.rubyforge.org/news/2010-06-21--0.6.6-released.html
>>>
>>
>> I just file the PR that updates it to 0.6.6:
>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=148168
>>
>> I just applied the patch and upgraded Alexandria to version 0.6.6. Now
> other providers (like WorldCat) works too. Cool!
> Thanks!

Hi!
Can please anybody handle this PR. Maintainer keeps silence within 2 weeks.
Thanks.

-- 
Regards,
Ruslan


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