Author Topic: Linux: umask inhibits installation  (Read 1157 times)

hatboots

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Linux: umask inhibits installation
« on: September 29, 2021, 03:30:05 PM »
I have umask 027 set in my profiles. Installing SlickEdit using this umask, yields a non-functional SlickEdit for all users of my PC except for root (from which I rarely start SlickEdit).

Adjusting umask to 022 prior to SlickEdit installation solves this.

If you can temporarily adjust the umask setting during installation, it would solve this problem. Alternatively you could check the umask setting and warn/question the user if the umask value is not fit for installing SlickEdit.
« Last Edit: October 04, 2021, 08:12:42 PM by hatboots »

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Re: Linux: umask inhibits installation
« Reply #1 on: September 29, 2021, 03:58:35 PM »
That's not good.  I'll take a look at it, should be easy to fix.

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Re: Linux: umask inhibits installation
« Reply #2 on: September 29, 2021, 05:12:32 PM »
Fixed for beta 4.  We're setting permissions explicitly for the installed files and directories, but left out the root install directory, so it was left with the permissions from file creation.

Thanks for the report.


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Re: Linux: umask inhibits installation
« Reply #3 on: September 29, 2021, 05:16:30 PM »
Thank you!
Even if it was a simple task, that is impressive resolution speed!  :)

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Re: Linux: umask inhibits installation
« Reply #4 on: October 04, 2021, 08:11:38 PM »
Thank you!
This is working properly on my PC now, using beta4 and umask 027 :)