[977] in NetBSD-Development
Re: mkserv installed, and a question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sun Aug 27 02:35:56 1995
To: Yoav Yerushalmi <yoav@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 27 Aug 1995 02:22:39 EDT."
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Date: Sun, 27 Aug 1995 02:35:29 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> Oh, and one other thing I noticed: athena.tar.gz has attach as not a
> setuid program.
For some reason, the packs version lost its setuid bit. I've put its
setuid bit back and regenerated the athena tarfile.
athena-inst.sh does a "chmod u+s /mnt/bin/athena/attach", so this
shouldn't have caused any problems. I'm not really sure why I put
that chmod command there, though.
> I noticed we installed stuff in there as root:wheel. This isn't
> NetBSD philosophy.. is it? shouldn't stuff be bin:bin unless needed
> to be something else?
Looks like it. The important thing is that binaries not belong to
"ghudson" or "yoav" if they might wind up copied onto the local
machine. Getting all the permissions to be just like they would be on
a NetBSD machine is likely to be difficult without making lots of
hacks to the Athena Makefiles, though. I'm not totally sure what to
do about ownerships.
