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linux 9.0.11: /etc permissions wrong on 9.0

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Angie Kelic)
Wed Jul 25 22:34:27 2001

Message-Id: <200107260234.WAA01273@karman.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 22:34:22 -0400
From: Angie Kelic <sly@MIT.EDU>

System name:		karman.mit.edu
Type and version:	i686 9.0.11 (with mkserv)
Display type:		XFree86 4.0.3 

Shell:			/bin/athena/tcsh
Window manager:		fvwm2

What were you trying to do?
	log in remotely via ssh

What's wrong:
It yields the following errors:
	athena% ssh karman
Last login: Thu May 17 18:33:20 2001 from nighthawk.mit.edu
Athena Server (linux) Version 9.0.11 Wed Jul 25 19:22:49 EDT 2001
/usr/X11R6/bin/xauth:  creating new authority file /tmp/xauth-sly-1147/Xauthority
dircolors: `/etc/DIR_COLORS': Permission denied
egrep: /etc/DIR_COLORS: Permission denied
Running standard startup activities ...
Couldn't initialize resolver: Error reading file
Running custom startup activities listed in ~/.startup.tty ...


What should have happened:
/etc/DIR_COLORS
and /etc/resolv.conf 
should probably be world readable not just rw by root

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