[PLUG] Did I just do something very stupid?

[Anthony Schlemmer]

I did a quick scan of my SuSE 8.0 system and I couldn't find a single 
case of where any file or directory was writable by "other". Maybe 
Mandrake is different but all of my KDE stuff goes into /opt and I 
didn't see that any KDE related in /usr/share.

Tony

On Friday 30 August 2002 15:25 pm, Dean S. Messing wrote:
> Thanks Tony for the reply.
>
> Yeah, I know what it does. And I would have agreed with you before I
> did it.  The operative word in your post is "usually".
>
> But the fact that my desktop "refreshed" (icons blinked, panel
> refreshed) as the permission changes were being performed made me
> think (with that feeling of nausea in the pit of one's stomach):
>
> "Uh-oh.  Does Mandrake or KDE keep their system menu/desktop stuff in
> /usr/share and do they requre it to be open so that they can easily
> update menu libraries when packages are installed or deleted by
> ordinary users?
>
> Are all my menus going to be hosed from now on?  Have I, at the push
> of a <RET> key (I'm a commandline kinda guy) just cost myself hours
> of pain, toil, and tears? ..."
>
> So ran the train of my morbid thoughts.
> I guess time will tell.
>
>  :: All you did was make it so that "other" doesn't have write access
>  :: to anything on /usr/share. Doesn't really sound bad to me. That's
>  :: usually they way you want all files and directories to be in
>  :: /usr/share otherwise anyone could create a file or another
>  :: directory somewhere in the /usr/share filesystem hierarchy.
>  ::
>  :: Tony
>  ::
>  :: On Friday 30 August 2002 11:14 am, Dean S. Messing wrote:
>  :: > I may have just done a very stupid thing.
>  :: >
>  :: > On a mandrake 8.2 system I just did:
>  :: >
>  :: > chmod -R o-w /usr/share
>  ::
>  :: <snip>
>  ::
>  :: > Have I just irreparable broken my system?
>  :: >
>  :: >
>  :: > Dean
>
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