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Re: [SOLVED] Re: How add key of 3rd party repo?

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Hi David, 

this is a very good and value hint! What you are telling is very reasonable 
and makes fully sense. Yes, in the past I olayed aroud mith umask, and it can 
really happen, that I messed up things by doing so. 

I will recheck my settings and if there are any missettings, of course correct 
them to debian's actual default settings.

Besides, i am still concerned about the default umask settings, but this I 
already mentioned and will not be reopened again. 

Again: Thank you very much for pointing me to this! 

Made me happy!

Best regards

Hans



> From the clues left dotted around, my bet is that you've messed up
> your system with the way you become root, affecting its umask.
> 
> A couple of months ago (and back in 2020), you were exhorting Debian
> to set a mask for users of at least 027, and I'm wondering whether,
> in your case, it might have been changed to 077 since around one of
> those times.
> 
> Back in 2014, you had the permissions on dpkg set to -rwxr-x---,
> which would correspond to a umask of 027, so perhaps you had already
> tightened your system from the Debian default, 022, to 027 by then.
> 
> So it now comes down to why system components are getting the user's
> umask applied to them. For that, I looked back to 2014 when you seemed
> to be a bit more forthcoming with pasting prompts into your posts.
> 
> Your first post in the thread¹ starts with:
> | Ok, so let’s start as root:
> | 
> | su -p
> | root@protheus2:~# LANG=C mediathekview
> 
> Well, three cases of su are:
> 
>   ~$ umask
>   0027                ← the securer default was set for this user.
>   ~$ su
>   Password:
>   /home/auser# umask
>   0022                ← correct
>   /home/auser#
>   exit
>   ~$ su -
>   Password:
>   ~# umask
>   0022                ← correct
>   ~#
>   logout
>   ~$ su -p
>   Password:
>   ~# umask
>   0027                ← wrong for root
>   ~#
>   exit
>   ~$
> 
> So I'm guessing that you've been installing things after having become
> root with -p. I don't know whether APT and dpkg can themselves modify
> any excessively restrictive umask, and I'm unwilling to test that here.
> 
> ¹ https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/07/msg00053.html
> 
> Cheers,
> David.

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How add key of 3rd party repo? Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2024-09-22 18:50 +0200
  Re: How add key of 3rd party repo? Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2024-09-22 19:10 +0200
    Re: How add key of 3rd party repo? Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2024-09-22 19:30 +0200
      Re: How add key of 3rd party repo? The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2024-09-22 19:40 +0200
        [SOLVED] Re: How add key of 3rd party repo? Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2024-09-22 20:10 +0200
          Re: [SOLVED] Re: How add key of 3rd party repo? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2024-09-23 03:00 +0200
            Re: [SOLVED] Re: How add key of 3rd party repo? Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2024-09-23 10:00 +0200
  Re: How add key of 3rd party repo? Juri Grabowski <debian@jugra.de> - 2024-09-23 19:10 +0200

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