[Synaptic-devel] [bug #40519] Restrictive umask propagates to synaptic session, thereby removing access by "other" for installed files of all sorts.

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                 Summary: Restrictive umask propagates to synaptic session,
thereby removing access by "other" for installed files of all sorts.
                 Project: Synaptic
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Fri 08 Nov 2013 04:44:30 PM UTC
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

Relevant environment:
Synaptic version 0.75.13
"vanilla" Debian 7.2
x86_64 platform
Xfce desktop environment, version 4.8

Problem: a user in the "sudo" group has a umask of 0027 (octal).  User runs
Synaptic (menu or shell).  Xfce4 displays a dialog asking for user's password,
which is entered.  Package manager runs without obvious problems.  A package
is installed.  All files created during installation of the package are
without any access allowed for "other."  Much hilarity ensues as users try in
vain to use the installed packages.

There are workarounds, but this behavior as default can be very damaging to a
system in fairly subtle ways.  Despite the existence of workarounds, I think
this should be addressed in Synaptic itself as a matter of principle.





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