69042 – gensync has no permission check

Bug 69042 - gensync has no permission check

Summary: gensync has no permission check

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Unspecified (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Portage Tools Team

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Keywords:	Inclusion

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Reported:	2004-10-26 10:12 UTC by Emil Beinroth
Modified:	2007-01-11 04:46 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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adds permissioncheck (gensync_permcheck.patch,1.26 KB, patch) 2004-10-26 10:26 UTC, Emil Beinroth	Details \| Diff
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Description Emil Beinroth 2004-10-26 10:12:58 UTC

Everyone can call gensync for overlays where he has no write-permissions. gensync calls and rsync and you see pages of warnings running down your terminal.
gensync should check the permissions first and exit if the caller has no writepermissions.

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Emil Beinroth 2004-10-26 10:26:34 UTC

Created attachment 42643 [details, diff]
adds permissioncheck

This patch adds a permissioncheck for the overlay. Also the 'bug'
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68588 is fixed. It's for gensync from
app-portage/gentoolkit-dev-0.2.0_pre4.

Comment 2 Paul Varner (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-01-11 04:46:58 UTC

gensync has been deprecated in gentoolkit-dev-0.2.6.2 and will be completely removed in the next version.