[OS X TeX] MacTeX - a few questions

[Adam R. Maxwell]

On Feb 24, 2007, at 23:52, Axel E. Retif wrote:

>
> I really don't see what the problem is ---/Applications/TeX is owned  
> by root with group admin just as /Applications/Utilities:
>
> drwxrwxrwx    4 root     admin      136 Feb 25 00:11 TeX/
> [...]
> drwxrwxr-x   34 root     admin     1156 Feb 18 01:06 Utilities/
>
> Other directories (e.g., Adobe apps) are owned by the administrator  
> (I don't know why Photoshop has different group ---it's just how  
> Adobe installed them):
>
> drwxrwxrwx   15 axretif  admin      510 May 29  2005 Adobe  
> Illustrator CS/
> drwxrwxrwx   14 axretif  admin      476 May 29  2005 Adobe InDesign  
> CS/
> drwxrwxrwx   15 axretif  axretif    510 May 29  2005 Adobe Photoshop  
> CS/
> drwxrwxrwx    6 axretif  admin      204 Jan 22 00:43 Adobe Reader 8/

Your TeX and Adobe* folders really have world-writable permissions?   
This isn't generally a good idea, from a security standpoint, since it  
basically defeats any owner/group restrictions.

-- adam


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