[Slackbuilds-users] Problems with system permissions getting changed

[Robby Workman]

John Ingersoll wrote:
> 
> 
> On 10/15/07, *Robby Workman* <rworkman at slackbuilds.org
> <mailto:rworkman at slackbuilds.org>> wrote:
> 
>     John Ingersoll wrote:
>     > Hi,
>     >
>     > I've installed two packages from slackbuilds and experienced the same
>     > problem both times .
>     >
>     > The most recent install was ppracer. After both installations, I
>     noticed
>     > my user account didn't have permissions to do some of the simplest
>     > tasks, e.g., `ls'.
> 
> 
>     We don't have ppracer in our repo, so this was not from us.
> 
> http://slackbuilds.org/repository/11.0/games/ppracer/
> http://slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/11.0/games/ppracer.tar.gz
> 
> Sorry I should have said I'm still running Slack11
>  
> 
>     What was the other?
> 
> 
> tuxtype2 (also SW11: and that occured several months back)


Ah, okay.  Hmm, I don't have an 11.0 box handy; however, I have a fix:
in the build script, have it use this:
/sbin/makepkg -c y -l y ... instead of /sbin/makepkg -c n -l n

I must admit that I find it surprising that this was not already
reported back when 11.0 was in wider usage - are you by chance
using a non-default umask for the root account?
Post the output of "umask" both as a normal user and as root.

-RW