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

Justin Patrin papercrane at gmail.com
Thu Apr 26 22:26:48 UTC 2007


On 4/26/07, Graeme Gregory <dp at xora.org.uk> wrote:
> 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.
>

Sure. As I said this does need to be fixed. Sorry, I tend to get
sarcastic when responding to Koen.

-- 
Justin Patrin




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