Re: Bug#23576: tetex-base: no write-permissions on public font directories

1998-06-21 Thread Olaf Weber
Christoph Martin writes: > A normal user could replace the file with a link to some other file > say /vmlinuz or a file in another user homedir. Then if root or this > other user tries to write ls-R he/she would write to /vmlinuz or > other files. mktexupd checks for a magic string, and won't ch

Re: Bug#23576: tetex-base: no write-permissions on public font directories

1998-06-18 Thread Christoph Martin
Olaf Weber writes: > christoph martin writes: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > >> Package: tetex-base > >> Version: 0.9-7 > >> > >> When the user first hits an ungenerated font then "permission denied" > >> messages are plentiful... :) > > > The fonts get generated correctly, but it i

Re: Bug#23576: tetex-base: no write-permissions on public font directories

1998-06-18 Thread Olaf Weber
christoph martin writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> Package: tetex-base >> Version: 0.9-7 >> >> When the user first hits an ungenerated font then "permission denied" >> messages are plentiful... :) > The fonts get generated correctly, but it is a security problem to let > everybody write the

Re: Bug#23576: tetex-base: no write-permissions on public font directories

1998-06-16 Thread christoph . martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Package: tetex-base > Version: 0.9-7 > > When the user first hits an ungenerated font then "permission denied" > messages are plentiful... :) The fonts get generated correctly, but it is a security problem to let everybody write the ls-R file. > > I believe th