[Pkg-firebird-general] Bug#189989: bug 189989

[Damyan Ivanov]

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Hi, Robert,

> Dear Damyan:
> 
> I filed that bug report years ago. From your answer, I gather that the
> situation has changed and the bug has gone away. That's great. However, I
> don't believe I ever suggested setting default directory permissions to 0777
> (at least not without a very good reason).

See the second message on bugs.debian.org/189989

> From: Roland Gersch <r at roland-gersch.de>
> To: 189989 at bugs.debian.org
> Subject: Correction
> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 20:26:13 +0200
> 
> Hello,
> 
> on closer inspection, I think permissions 777 on the
> /var/run/firebird directory would be even better. Otherwise,
> on a freshly started system, a user cannot access any
> database.

The message above was the reason to comment on 777 permissions in my
mail when closing the bug. I didn't want to insult, I just wanted to
make a clear statement about 077 permissions.

There is general problem with classic-server that needs the user process
to be able to write to fbsecurity.fdb and thus forcing all classic
clients to be members of firebird group. This is "a feature " of the
classic archetecture and I can't see what can be done about it. I
generally use fbclient-linked clients that connect with the server
through TCP and althrough this has some performance penalty, it makes me
sleep better :-)


Best regards,
dam
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