Dear Damyan: I filed that bug report years ago. From your answer, I gather that the situation has changed and the bug has gone away. That's great. However, I don't believe I ever suggested setting default directory permissions to 0777 (at least not without a very good reason).
Sincerely, Roland On Saturday 17 September 2005 17:03, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report > #189989: firebird-server-common: Permissions on /var/run/firebird prevent > non-root access to database, which was filed against the firebird2 package. > > It has been closed by one of the developers, namely > Damyan Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. > > Their explanation is attached below. If this explanation is > unsatisfactory and you have not received a better one in a separate > message then please contact the developer, by replying to this email. > > Debian bug tracking system administrator > (administrator, Debian Bugs database) > > Received: (at 189989-done) by bugs.debian.org; 17 Sep 2005 14:47:42 +0000 > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Sep 17 07:47:41 2005 > Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Received: from fiona.creditreform.bg [212.36.1.3] > by spohr.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 1 (Debian)) > id 1EGdyf-000181-00; Sat, 17 Sep 2005 07:47:41 -0700 > Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] ident=amavis) > by fiona.creditreform.bg with esmtp (Exim 4.50) > id 1EGdye-0002Vz-E4 > for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sat, 17 Sep 2005 17:47:40 +0300 > Received: from fiona.creditreform.bg ([127.0.0.1]) > by localhost (fiona [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP > id 09344-01 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > Sat, 17 Sep 2005 17:47:40 +0300 (EEST) > Received: from pc1.creditreform.bg ([192.168.110.32]) > by fiona.creditreform.bg with esmtp (Exim 4.50) > id 1EGdye-0002Vt-AF > for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sat, 17 Sep 2005 17:47:40 +0300 > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 17:48:39 +0300 > From: Damyan Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050802) > X-Accept-Language: en-us, en > MIME-Version: 1.0 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Bug 189989 closed > X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at creditreform.bg > Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 > (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on spohr.debian.org > X-Spam-Level: > X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.0 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no > version=2.60-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 > > Version: 1.5.2-7 > > Permissions on /var/run/firebird2 are 0770, user:group == > firebird:firebird, so there should be no problem for users members of > firebird group. > > Making a directory 0777 is something that is neger going to happen in > firebird2 packages, sorry. > > > Best regards, > dam -- Roland Gersch | c/o Lange | Telefon 0711 - 18 15 17 1 Markelstraße 44 | Mobil 0176 - 22 50 26 57 70193 Stuttgart |