[ic] Movin on to question #962642: interch user... :)

[Jon Jensen]

On Wed, 14 May 2003, Mark Bryant wrote:

> Nothing should be owned by root for IC and I'm unsure why you're taking 
> this approach. If you have RH7.2 why are you not using the rpm installers 
> as they will setup all the files/folders with the correct ownership and 
> perms? Put it this way they worked fine for me on my RH installation :o)

Actually, the standard Interchange RPMs do install a fair number of files 
and directories owned by root. For example, /etc/interchange.cfg, and the 
admin in /usr/lib/interchange/lib/UI. They're readable but not writable by 
user interch, which gives them some measure of protection against 
malicious acts by user interch. This is by no means necessary, but just 
another layer of protection.

Jon