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  • From: Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
  • To: sm-grimoire AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Grimoire] openssl bug or security feature?
  • Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 21:10:02 +0100

On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 07:35:47PM -0000, evraire AT tuwg.com wrote:
> Hi,
> in the process of manually compiling a source package as a regular user
> I've stumbled upon what might be a minor bug in the openssl spell, or it
> might be a security feature. I was wondering what people thought...
>
> I did the ./configure as a regular user and it failed because it couldn't
> access the /usr/lib/pkgconfig directory. On my system, the permissions on
> that directory were 644, so I needed to "chmod +x" the directory before I
> could continue.
>
> "gaze from /usr/lib/pkgconfig" says this directory was created by the
> openssl spell, so what I'm wondering is if the execute bit was
> intentionally left off the directory for some security purpose, or whether
> this is a bug in the openssl bug?
>
> What do you think?
>
> Jonathan Evraire
> evraire at tuwg.com

Thanks, finally i know which stupid program does that. It's an error in
the openssl Makefile, chmoding that directory to 644 is just broken,
i'll fix it.

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