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

Torfinn Ingolfsen tingox at gmail.com
Tue Jun 22 18:54:19 UTC 2010


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
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Regards,
Torfinn Ingolfsen


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