[21798] in bugtraq
Re: permission probs with Arkeia
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cheng-Jih Chen)
Mon Jul 23 19:45:08 2001
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 15:58:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: Cheng-Jih Chen <cjc@cjc.org>
To: Daniel Wittenberg <daniel-wittenberg@uiowa.edu>
Cc: <bugtraq@securityfocus.com>
In-Reply-To: <B781D41F.42C%daniel-wittenberg@uiowa.edu>
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On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Daniel Wittenberg wrote:
> While working with the commercial version of Arkeia backup software I
> noticed it creates most of it's "database" files with the permissions of
> 666. This was version 4.2.8-2 of the server, and I had noticed this several
> updates ago, so it's been going on for some time. The database files are
> located in /usr/knox/arkeia/dbase. I have tried resetting the permissions
> on the files, but they get reset again when backup runs again. I tried
> contacting Knox Software but was told more than once that basically I don't
> have a support contract so they wouldn't talk to me - they were warned. I
> wasn't able to find anything about this in their documentation.
We're running 4.2.7-1 server and we're not seeing this. The files
that are 666 are the zero-length lock files (o3_cpnt.lck), but the more
substansive "database" data files (o3_cpnt) is 644. The Arkeia change
log indicates that the oly difference between 4.2.7 and 4.2.8 is tape
library support.
