[OS X TeX] Permissions

[Curtis Clifton]

Holger,

On Jan 11, 2005, at 4:03 AM, Holger Frauenrath wrote:

>> matl-hci-d234:~ frauenrath_loc$ ls -l /usr/local/tetex
>> total 8
>> drwxr-xr-x   5 root  staff   170 11 Jan 10:00 bin
>> drwxr-xr-x   3 root  staff   102 11 Jan 10:00 include
>> drwxr-xr-x  17 root  staff   578 11 Jan 10:00 info
>> drwxr-xr-x   4 root  staff   136 11 Jan 10:00 lib
>> drwxr-xr-x   5 root  staff   170 11 Jan 10:00 man
>> drwxr-xr-x   9 root  staff   306 11 Jan 10:01 share
>> -rw-------   1 root  staff  3209 11 Jan 10:02 texmf.cnf

That last entry looks strange.  It says the texmf.cnf is only readable 
by the root user.  On my install that file has permission string 
"-rw-r--r--", which means readable by everyone.

Here's a command that should list all the files in your TeX install 
that are not readable by everyone:

find /usr/local/teTeX -not -perm +044

On my install it does not return any results.  That is, all files in my 
TeX install are readable by everyone.  What are the results on your 
machine?

Curt

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Curtis Clifton, PhD Candidate
Dept. of Computer Science, Iowa State University
http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~cclifton

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