Bug 240437 – [OpenRC] sys-apps/openrc-0.3.0 creates utmp & wtmp with wrong permissions

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Billy DeVincentis 2008-10-07 23:31:05 UTC]

For users of libutempter in kde who require wall messaging, the correct permissions for utmp and wtmp are 664, not 644 as is scripted in /etc/init.d/bootmisc. This must be changed for kde write daemon to function properly.
We need to change this 

if dir_writeable /var/run; then
		ebegin "Creating user login records"
		cp /dev/null /var/run/utmp
		if dir_writeable /var/log; then
			logw=true
			[ -e /var/log/wtmp ] || cp /dev/null /var/log/wtmp
			chmod 0644 /var/run/utmp /var/log/wtmp
		fi
		eend 0





to  this


if dir_writeable /var/run; then
		ebegin "Creating user login records"
		cp /dev/null /var/run/utmp
		if dir_writeable /var/log; then
			logw=true
			[ -e /var/log/wtmp ] || cp /dev/null /var/log/wtmp
			chmod 0664 /var/run/utmp /var/log/wtmp
		fi
		eend 0

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Roy Marples 2008-10-08 13:58:52 UTC]

Fixed in http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/openrc.git;a=commitdiff;h=dbc1835c26e906097860620bb63882e5068b03fc

[Comment 2 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) 2008-10-08 15:15:04 UTC]

This will appear in the next patchset.

[Comment 3 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) 2008-10-08 16:22:54 UTC]

Fixed in 0.3.0-r1