pkg audit -F - insufficient privileges

Roger Marquis marquis at roble.com
Fri Oct 21 16:49:06 UTC 2016


Walter Schwarzenfeld wrote:
> |chmod 755 /var/db/pkg solved it.

Interesting.  I had to 'chmod 644 /var/db/pkg/vuln.xml' for the same
effect.  Wouldn't best practices set these at 750 and 640?  Is there an
upside to restricting access to vuln.xml considering it's world readable
on the web?

Roger


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