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Bug 359897

Summary:	top "owner" permissions for webtools cvs root are incorrect
Product:	Community	Reporter:	David Williams <david_williams>
Component:	Servers	Assignee:	Eclipse Webmaster <webmaster>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:

Description David Williams

2011-10-04 14:52:33 EDT

I've noticed that in our webtools cvs, that 'ahunter' (Anthony Hunter?) 
is the "user owner" of our CVSROOT. That's not right, on a number of 
levels. While I doubt it (or he) would ever harm anything, I think it 
should be fixed. From looking at "tools", it appears 'cvs' should be 
both owner and group. 

/cvsroot/webtools

drwxrwsr-x 3 ahunter cvs 4K 2010-03-19 10:19 CVSROOT/


Aside from just being incorrect, I'm wondering if such a "random" permissions error is cause for concern? You know, just how it could happen? Is it a sign that something is wrong or compromized? etc.

Comment 1 Eclipse Webmaster

2011-10-04 15:55:31 EDT

Fixed.  I can come up with a couple of plausible reasons why this may have happened(that fall into the 'goof' bucket).  The upside here is that the contents are all correctly owned, so even if Anthony wanted to be evil, he wouldn't have the rights to remove the contents of the directory.

-M.