Re: write access for automatic font generation

Julian Gilbey <[email protected]> Mon, 19 Jul 2004 22:39:23 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.tex.tetex.general
Message-ID	<20040719213923.GA2008@polya2>

On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 08:33:48AM +0200, Thomas Lauke wrote:
> > Setting any suid bits on scripts is not recommended for security reasons.
> I know, but sticky bit asks for correct effective user id ...
> Who should be the owner of all the stuff, especially the binaries?

Does it?  Aren't you making your directories permission 1777 (dwrxwrxwrt)?
So what does it matter who owns the binaries?

Apologies if I'm just being plain ignorant...

   Julian