[7835] in Athena Bugs
Re: /source/athena/athena.bin/mwm ...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (vanharen@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Jul 29 22:41:01 1991
From: vanharen@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 91 22:41:11 -0400
To: jik@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, rel-eng@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: bugs[7721]
jik says:
> /source/athena/athena.bin/mwm is world-readable. I don't think it
> should be.
Richard replies:
> The fact that this directory is world-readable is ok; the only thing in
> there besides the mwm binaries that also reside on the packs are the
> Imakefiles to install them.
I think jik is right here. Unfortunately, our Motif license restricts
our use of motif sources and binaries to mit, and since /source is
on AFS, and thus accessible all over the place, we need to have more
restrictive access on this directory. Simply removing
"system:anyuser read" and replacing it with "system:authuser read"
should satisfy the terms of the contract.
Unless there is a good reason that this directory needs to have
anyuser-read access, it should be changed, just to be safe.
Thanks,
-C.
