>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:
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
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