<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/15/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Robby Workman</b> <<a href="mailto:rworkman@slackbuilds.org">rworkman@slackbuilds.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
John Ingersoll wrote:<br>><br>><br>> On 10/15/07, *Robby Workman* <<a href="mailto:rworkman@slackbuilds.org">rworkman@slackbuilds.org</a><br>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:rworkman@slackbuilds.org">rworkman@slackbuilds.org
</a>>> wrote:<br>><br>> John Ingersoll wrote:<br>> > Hi,<br>> ><br>> > I've installed two packages from slackbuilds and experienced the same<br>> > problem both times .
<br>> ><br>> > The most recent install was ppracer. After both installations, I<br>> noticed<br>> > my user account didn't have permissions to do some of the simplest<br>> > tasks,
e.g., `ls'.<br>><br>><br>> We don't have ppracer in our repo, so this was not from us.<br>><br>> <a href="http://slackbuilds.org/repository/11.0/games/ppracer/">http://slackbuilds.org/repository/11.0/games/ppracer/
</a><br>> <a href="http://slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/11.0/games/ppracer.tar.gz">http://slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/11.0/games/ppracer.tar.gz</a><br>><br>> Sorry I should have said I'm still running Slack11<br>
><br>><br>> What was the other?<br>><br>><br>> tuxtype2 (also SW11: and that occured several months back)<br><br><br>Ah, okay. Hmm, I don't have an 11.0 box handy; however, I have a fix:<br>in the build script, have it use this:
<br>/sbin/makepkg -c y -l y ... instead of /sbin/makepkg -c n -l n<br><br>I must admit that I find it surprising that this was not already<br>reported back when 11.0 was in wider usage - are you by chance<br>using a non-default umask for the root account?
</blockquote><div><br><slaps forehead> i think you just nailed it! <br></div><br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Post the output of "umask" both as a normal user and as root.</blockquote><div>root => 0027<br>user => 0027<br>My mistake (note to self: change umask before install)<br>I got on this 'system hardening' kick a while back and keep getting burned by it. Many thanks.
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