[OS X TeX] MacTeX - a few questions

[Axel E. Retif]

On 25 Feb, 2007, at 11:12 , Adam R. Maxwell wrote:

> On Feb 24, 2007, at 23:52, Axel E. Retif wrote:
>
>> I really don't see what the problem is ---/Applications/TeX is  
>> owned by root with group admin just as /Applications/Utilities:
>>
>> drwxrwxrwx    4 root     admin      136 Feb 25 00:11 TeX/
>> [...]
>> drwxrwxr-x   34 root     admin     1156 Feb 18 01:06 Utilities/
>>
>> Other directories (e.g., Adobe apps) are owned by the  
>> administrator (I don't know why Photoshop has different group --- 
>> it's just how Adobe installed them):
>>
>> drwxrwxrwx   15 axretif  admin      510 May 29  2005 Adobe  
>> Illustrator CS/
>> drwxrwxrwx   14 axretif  admin      476 May 29  2005 Adobe  
>> InDesign CS/
>> drwxrwxrwx   15 axretif  axretif    510 May 29  2005 Adobe  
>> Photoshop CS/
>> drwxrwxrwx    6 axretif  admin      204 Jan 22 00:43 Adobe Reader 8/
>
> Your TeX and Adobe* folders really have world-writable  
> permissions?  This isn't generally a good idea, from a security  
> standpoint, since it basically defeats any owner/group restrictions.

Yes, in my desktop; in my laptop (untouched by Quark 6*), TeX  
directory has drwxr-xr-x, but Adobe apps are drwxrwxrwx.

Best,

Axel

* I always say Quark 6, because latter they fixed this permissions  
problem, at least Quark 6.5 updater didn't mess with permissions.


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