/etc/localtime isn't world readable

[Jean-Francois Veillette]

Hi,

I wonder why /etc/localtime isn't world readable in the Fedora Core
distribution. Let say you put your hardware clock in UTC and your computer
is set to whatever timezone. Then by default, when you log as a user
gnome/kde clock applet display time as UTC because /etc/localtime isn't
readable. Is tbere a security issue about this file being world readable.

Jean-Francois Veillette

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[Alexandre Oliva]

Post by Jean-Francois Veillette
I wonder why /etc/localtime isn't world readable in the Fedora Core
distribution.

Err... It is for me. And I think it has to be.

[Paul Gear]

Post by Alexandre Oliva

Post by Jean-Francois Veillette
I wonder why /etc/localtime isn't world readable in the Fedora Core
distribution.

Err... It is for me. And I think it has to be.

I've seen this bug appear after using timeconfig if root's umask was not
022 or something similar. (I always set it to 027, and i've had several
problems caused by this.)

[Ulrich Drepper]

Post by Jean-Francois Veillette
I wonder why /etc/localtime isn't world readable in the Fedora Core
distribution.

Try the patch in bz #109803.

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➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖

[Jean-Francois Veillette]

the patch works just fine.
Jean-Francois Veillette

Subject: Re: /etc/localtime isn't world readable
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 14:52:21 -0800
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Post by Jean-Francois Veillette
I wonder why /etc/localtime isn't world readable in the Fedora Core
distribution.

Try the patch in bz #109803.

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