Bug 22874

Summary: Permission denied in /usr/share/doc
Product: Mageia Reporter: Stig-Ørjan Smelror <smelror>
Component: RPM PackagesAssignee: Shlomi Fish <shlomif>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal CC: davidwhodgins, marja11
Version: Cauldron   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard: MGA6TOO
Source RPM: abattis-cantarell-fonts-0.0.25-1.mga6.src.rpm CVE:
Status comment:

Description Stig-Ørjan Smelror 2018-04-06 00:47:01 CEST 
I wanted to copy everything, of all things, from /usr/share/doc to my home directory and got these messages from the packages I have installed.

$ cp -a /usr/share/doc .
cp: cannot stat '/usr/share/doc/abattis-cantarell-fonts/COPYING': Permission denied
cp: cannot stat '/usr/share/doc/abattis-cantarell-fonts/NEWS': Permission denied
cp: cannot stat '/usr/share/doc/abattis-cantarell-fonts/README': Permission denied
cp: cannot stat '/usr/share/doc/perl-Tie-IxHash/Changes': Permission denied
cp: cannot stat '/usr/share/doc/perl-Tie-IxHash/META.json': Permission denied
cp: cannot stat '/usr/share/doc/perl-Tie-IxHash/META.yml': Permission denied
cp: cannot stat '/usr/share/doc/perl-Tie-IxHash/MYMETA.yml': Permission denied
cp: cannot stat '/usr/share/doc/perl-Tie-IxHash/README': Permission denied
cp: cannot open '/usr/share/doc/python3-docs/searchindex.js' for reading: Permission denied
cp: cannot stat '/usr/share/doc/stix-fonts/STIX Font License 2010.pdf': Permission denied
cp: cannot stat '/usr/share/doc/stix-fonts/STIXv1.1.0.pdf': Permission denied
cp: cannot stat '/usr/share/doc/perl-Log-Message/CHANGES': Permission denied
cp: cannot stat '/usr/share/doc/perl-Log-Message/META.json': Permission denied
cp: cannot stat '/usr/share/doc/perl-Log-Message/META.yml': Permission denied
cp: cannot stat '/usr/share/doc/perl-Log-Message/MYMETA.yml': Permission denied
cp: cannot stat '/usr/share/doc/perl-Log-Message/README': Permission denied

Haven't checked if I can access them.

Cheers,
Stig
Comment 1 Dave Hodgins 2018-04-06 02:43:03 CEST 
Permission problem confirmed on Mageia 6 too.
# ll /usr/share/doc|grep -v r-x
total 8716
drw-r--r--   2 root root  4096 Dec 20 03:28 abattis-cantarell-fonts/
drw-r--r--   2 root root  4096 Dec 20 04:12 cdparanoia/
drw-r--r--   2 root root  4096 Dec 20 03:24 dmsetup/
drw-r--r--   8 root root  4096 Dec 20 03:48 fortune-mod/
drw-r--r--   2 root root  4096 Dec 20 04:21 lvm2/
dr--r--r--   2 root root  4096 Dec 20 03:11 perl-File-Lockf/
drw-r--r--   2 root root  4096 Dec 20 04:07 perl-IO-Multiplex/
drw-r--r--   3 root root  4096 Dec 20 04:12 perl-JSON/
drw-r--r--   4 root root  4096 Dec 20 04:11 perl-JSON-XS/
drw-r--r--   2 root root  4096 Dec 20 04:14 perl-Log-Message/
drw-r--r--   2 root root  4096 Dec 20 04:08 perl-Regexp-Common/
drw-r--r--   2 root root  4096 Dec 20 03:49 stix-fonts/
drw-r--r--   2 root root  4096 Dec 20 03:43 tcsh/

The above directories are missing the x attribute to allow search for the
directories.

Workaround is to run (as root) chmod a+x /usr/share/doc/* , but the packages
involved should be fixed. Looks like it's going to affect quite a few packages.

CC: (none) => davidwhodgins
Whiteboard: (none) => MGA6TOO
Source RPM: (none) => abattis-cantarell-fonts-0.0.25-1.mga6.src.rpm

Comment 2 Marja Van Waes 2018-04-06 21:24:59 CEST 
Assigning to the registered maintainer.

Assignee: bugsquad => shlomif
CC: (none) => marja11

Comment 3 Marja Van Waes 2021-09-07 21:43:01 CEST 
In cauldron, I don't see the problem 

[marja@localhost cauldron]$ ll /usr/share/doc|grep cantarell
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Aug 17 11:01 abattis-cantarell-fonts/

Nor do I see it in in Mageia 8:

[root@localhost marja]# ll sda9/usr/share/doc | grep cantarell
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 sep  5 14:04 abattis-cantarell-fonts/
[root@localhost marja]#

So this bug got fixed for abattis-cantarell-fonts, the package against which this report was filed.

I don't have any packages that have this issue in my cauldron or Mageia 8, but if they do exist: please file a separate report for each package


[marja@localhost cauldron]$ LC_ALL=C ll /usr/share/doc|grep -v r-x
total 5200
[marja@localhost cauldron]$

[root@localhost marja]# ll sda9/usr/share/doc | grep -v r-x
totaal 4512
[root@localhost marja]

Resolution: (none) => FIXED
Status: NEW => RESOLVED