gnats/247: Closing a PR makes the index file changed of permissions and owners

gnats/247: Closing a PR makes the index file changed of permissions and owners

[thomas_roetynck]

>Number:         247
>Category:       gnats
>Synopsis:       Closing a PR makes the index file changed of permissions and owners
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    unassigned
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Aug 23 05:34:02 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Thomas Roetynck
>Release:        3.113.1
>Organization:
>Environment:
RH 7.2 
i386
>Description:
After closing a PR, the permissions and the owners of the "index" file have changed:
before closing :
-rw-rw-rw- userX groupX ..... index
after closing :
-rw-r--r-- root  root   ..... index
>How-To-Repeat:
- submit a PR
- close it
- look at the "index" file 
>Fix:

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

Re: gnats/247: Closing a PR makes the index file changed of permissions and owners

[yngves]

Synopsis: Closing a PR makes the index file changed of permissions and owners

Responsible-Changed-From-To: unassigned->yngves
Responsible-Changed-By: yngves
Responsible-Changed-When: Thu Aug 23 05:48:06 2001
Responsible-Changed-Why:
    -
State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
State-Changed-By: yngves
State-Changed-When: Thu Aug 23 05:48:06 2001
State-Changed-Why:
    User adviced to suid queue-pr

http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?cmd=view&pr=247&database=gnats

Re: gnats/247: Closing a PR makes the index file changed of permissions and owners

[Yngve Svendsen]

The following reply was made to PR gnats/247; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Yngve Svendsen <yngve.svendsen@clustra.com>
To: thomas_roetynck@hotmail.com,gnats-gnats@sourceware.cygnus.com
Cc:  
Subject: Re: gnats/247: Closing a PR makes the index file changed of
  permissions and owners
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 14:42:58 +0200

 At 12:33 23.08.2001 +0000, thomas_roetynck@hotmail.com wrote:
 >After closing a PR, the permissions and the owners of the "index" file 
 >have changed:
 >before closing :
 >-rw-rw-rw- userX groupX ..... index
 >after closing :
 >-rw-r--r-- root  root   ..... index
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 >- submit a PR
 >- close it
 >- look at the "index" file
 
 This is a bug in GNATS 3. Try setting the queue-pr program to suid gnats, i.e.
 chown gnats /usr/local/libexec/gnats/queue-pr
 chmod u+s /usr/local/libexec/gnats/queue-pr
 
 Hope this helps,
 
 Yngve Svendsen
 IS Engineer
 Clustra AS, Trondheim, Norway
 yngve.svendsen@clustra.com
 Cell.: +47 913 915 02