[Mne_analysis] bad permissions within distributed tarball

Yaroslav Halchenko yoh at psychology.rutgers.edu
Mon Mar 12 17:20:01 EDT 2007
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and the same evilness is done by mne_setup_mne:

chmod 777 $mnedir/var

better instruct users to create a group mne and assign group ownership
of var  to mne and allow group to write to it. Having it world-wide
writable is evil ;-)

On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
> Unfortunately I seem to have no access to the archives of the list so I
> am not sure if this issue was mentioned:

> ,------------------------------------------------------------
> | *$> tar -tzvf MNE-dist-2.5-070307083302.tar.gz  | grep var
> | drwxrwxrwx msh/msh           0 2007-03-07 08:33 mne/var/
> `---

> please correct permission on empty /var  to be sensible (ie without
> world-write permission)
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