running subversion as non-root

[Roland Smith]

On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 03:40:47PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2005-11-01 08:32, Cerion Armour-Brown <cerion at terpsichore.ws> wrote:
> >On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 15:25:57 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote
> >> If you used the standard Ports stuff to install these and they
> >> have these broken permissions, it may be a side-effect of a
> >> broken umask setting for the root user.
> >>
> >> What do you see if you log in as 'root' and issue:
> >>
> >>         # umask
> >>
> >> Is this 0022 or something similar, or not?  If not, what value
> >> does it print?
> >
> > ahh, that's interesting: mine is 0027
> 
> Ugh!  That's a bit Evil(TM).  It means all the files root creates get
> their 'other' permissions zeroed out unconditionally, so this explains
> why your libraries can only be used by people in the 'wheel' group.
> 
> > I guess I should set that to 0022, and reinstall everything... (groan)
> 
> Very likely.  Sorry for the bad news :-/

You could also have find search for files with bad permissions, and
correct them with chmod. something like

find /usr/local/lib -type f -perm 750 -name "*.so*|xargs chmod 755

(try the find part separately first)

Something analogous can be done to bad binaries in /usr/local/bin.

Roland
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