Bug#680624: vim-addon-manager - Create stuff in /var/lib/vim unreadable for users

[James McCoy]

Control: clone -1 -2
Control: severity -2 normal
Control: retitle -2 Honor root's umask when performing root-user (not system) actions

On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 09:50:41PM -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote:
> James McCoy escreveu isso aí:
> > On Sat, Jul 07, 2012 at 02:53:13PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > > vim-addons respects umask a bit too much. It creates anything in
> > > /var/lib/vim, aka for any user, respecting the umask of the calling
> > > process, 027 in my case. So no user can read the stuff.
> > 
> > Attached patch uses a specific mode when installing an addon as root.
> > 
> > However, this doesn't correctly handle the case of an actual root user
> > installing addons for themself.  This would be better handled by
> > tracking whether it's a "system" install or not, instead of an install
> > being performed by root.
> 
> Right. I can't think ATM of a way to get that information ("is this a
> system-wide install?") available in a sane way down to the addon level
> without a major refactoring of the code ... :-/

Ok, I'm creating a separate issue to track detecting that difference and
I'll push my proposed fix for the original issue shortly.

Cheers,
-- 
James
GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <jamessan at debian.org>
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