[subversion-commit] SVN tex-common commit + diffs: r1068 - tex-common/trunk/debian

[Frank Küster]

Author: frank
Date: 2006-03-15 19:37:03 +0000 (Wed, 15 Mar 2006)
New Revision: 1068

Modified:
   tex-common/trunk/debian/README.Debian
   tex-common/trunk/debian/changelog
Log:
Add a remark in README.Debian that per default users are not member of
the "users" group, probably closes #356960


Modified: tex-common/trunk/debian/README.Debian
===================================================================
--- tex-common/trunk/debian/README.Debian	2006-03-15 19:30:07 UTC (rev 1067)
+++ tex-common/trunk/debian/README.Debian	2006-03-15 19:37:03 UTC (rev 1068)
@@ -5,9 +5,10 @@
 By default and according to long-standing tradition, the TeX font
 cache directory /var/cache/fonts is world-writable.  We suggest that
 you at least restrict write permissions to a particular group,
-e.g. "users".  Since this still allows every group member to create
-arbitrary files on the /var partition, even this might be a security
-risk, depending on local requirements and policy.
+e.g. "users" (note, however, that the default Debian installation does
+not put users into that group!).  Since this still allows every group
+member to create arbitrary files on the /var partition, even this
+might be a security risk, depending on local requirements and policy.
 
 You can use "dpkg-reconfigure -plow tex-common" to restrict write
 access to some group.  Alternatively, you could put /var/cache/fonts
@@ -22,4 +23,4 @@
 cache directories, please make this change manually.
 
 
- -- Frank Küster <frank at debian.org>, Thu Feb 23 18:02:37 2006
+ -- Frank Küster <frank at debian.org>, Wed Mar 15 20:38:13 2006

Modified: tex-common/trunk/debian/changelog
===================================================================
--- tex-common/trunk/debian/changelog	2006-03-15 19:30:07 UTC (rev 1067)
+++ tex-common/trunk/debian/changelog	2006-03-15 19:37:03 UTC (rev 1068)
@@ -6,8 +6,10 @@
     #- Update french debconf translation, thanks to Steve
     #<dlist at bluewin.ch> (closes: #356840) [frank]
     # incomplete
+  * Add a remark in README.Debian that per default users are not member of
+    the "users" group, probably closes #356960
 
- -- Frank Küster <frank at debian.org>  Wed, 15 Mar 2006 10:34:09 +0100
+ -- Frank Küster <frank at debian.org>  Wed, 15 Mar 2006 20:38:51 +0100
 
 tex-common (0.19) unstable; urgency=low