chmod_1, chmod_2, chmod_3 and lrshift_1

Paul Thomas paulthomas2@wanadoo.fr
Sat Aug 5 18:44:00 GMT 2006


François-Xavier Coudert wrote:

>> That's it!  I have been doing my builds and regtesting as, well..., you
>> know, that thing at the bottom of the trunk.  Changing user makes the
>> problem go away.  It's a rather obvious security measure that I suppose
>> has appeared recently?  or has it?
>
>
> Well, the test is not designed to be run as root :) I'll fix it.
>
> The thing is, being root gives you access to all files, even when you
> just chmod-ed them to be non-readable/writable.
>
> FX
>
>
Ah yes.  Then it will always return 0 for 'r' and 'w'.

Thanks Fx

Paul



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