[OS X TeX] Command-line fun
Bruno Voisin
bvoisin at mac.com
Mon Jan 15 17:15:23 CET 2007
Le 15 janv. 07 à 17:04, Peter Dyballa a écrit :
> 2755 for directories might be a better choice: then automatically
> the new contents in such a directory would be owned by the owners
> of this directory. No "post-fixing" would be necessary.
> A problem could arise from executable files (Ruby, Perl, and other
> scripts, for example in ConTeXt or XeTeX): they would lose this
> attribute.
Hi Peter,
Thanks for the explanations. Wouldn't the above have security
implications, any file put into these directories (owned by root)
immediately acquiring root privileges? Or did I misunderstand something?
Bruno
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