[oe] HEADS UP: insane.bbclass will now detect and stop the build on wrong RPATHs.

Graeme Gregory dp at xora.org.uk
Thu Apr 26 22:23:52 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 15:16 -0700, Justin Patrin wrote:
> I was under the impression that /home was normally writable only by
> root and the subdirs were normally only writable by the user who owns
> the directory (yes, I know you can set them differently if you want).
> I know I wouldn't want joe-the-user creating directory /home/justinpa
> to try to confuse justinp whose home dir is /home/justinp.
> 
So someone makes an Angstrom based distro that is distributed on Ipaqs
to a school that person happens to be called John Smith (a very common
uk name). A kid at the school uses one in class and he happens to be
called John Smith and is kinda smart. Suddenly he is root.

Graeme






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