[Slackbuilds-users] wifi-radar.conf need better perms

Robby Workman rworkman at slackbuilds.org
Tue Mar 11 17:21:08 EDT 2008


ciol wrote:
> Robby Workman wrote:
>> Well, I'm not sure that's the right approach - there may very well be
>> some cases where the admin has assigned group permissions to be
>> readable or even writable, and we don't want to blow that away.
>> That being said, it is somewhat of a corner case, and I guess that,
>> all things considered, it's probably better for the admin to have to
>> reset those permissions than to have compromised private key.
>>
> 
> echo "WARNING: you should do a chmod -r [...]"
> 
> No?


Well, that's an option, but there's no guarantee that it will be
seen (of course, there never it, but in this case especially).
If the package is installed as part of a large group, the message
will scroll past way too quickly to read...

I've got another idea, but I'll have to test - more later...

-RW


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