Re: Toolchain has UID dependency

["Yann E. MORIN" <yann dot morin dot 1998 at anciens dot enib dot fr>]

Rod,All,

On Wednesday 30 June 2010 18:32:58 Rod Nussbaumer wrote:
> Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > By default, the only place I know for sure that the user has write-access
> > to is ${HOME}. Any other place on the system will most probably not be
> > writable. The default has to be something in ${HOME}.
> Hence, the interesting conundrum that the only place CT-NG knows to be 
> writable just happens to be the one of the least friendly places for 
> users that are not the toolchain builder. I can't believe I seem to be 
> the first person to bump into this.

Well, usually, users on a system often happen to be of the same group, and
the group has read permissions in the homes of others. Evben world has
such permission.

It tends to change now, as user normally get there own group, but still
world has access, except for /hardened/ setups, where world is forbidden
access to homes. But that's still not the majority.

> Thanks for the nice explanation of how the search paths are formulated.

You're welcome! I think I'll clean that a bit and add it to the doc for
future reference. Or if you are willing to put that with your own words,
I'll gladly accept a patch! ;-]

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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