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Bug 359897 - top "owner" permissions for webtools cvs root are incorrect
Summary: top "owner" permissions for webtools cvs root are incorrect
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Community
Classification: Eclipse Foundation
Component: Servers (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 7
: P3 normal (vote)
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Assignee: Eclipse Webmaster CLA
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Reported: 2011-10-04 14:52 EDT by David Williams CLA
Modified: 2011-10-04 15:55 EDT (History)
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Description David Williams CLA 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 CLA 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.