tlmgr messes up the rights of installed/updated packagess

[Zdenek Wagner]

ne 24. 4. 2022 v 17:38 odesílatel Walter Cazzola <cazzola at di.unimi.it> napsal:
>
> On Sun, 24 Apr 2022, Tom Kacvinsky wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 11:03 AM Walter Cazzola <cazzola at di.unimi.it> wrote:
>
> >> Dear TeXLive Users/Developers,
> >> I have a problem with tlmgr that affects my texlive installation since
> >> TL2021.
>
> >> Context. I'm on a Linux (Fedora 35 flavor) box where I have installed
> >> texlive
> >> as root with the TUG script. In this way all the users of the Linux box can
> >> use LaTeX. I'm currently using an up-to-date TL2022 full installation.
>
> >> Once installed everything work as expected. Unfortunately when I run (as
> >> root):
>
> >>   > tlmgr update --all
>
> >> the updated packages have their rights access changed from 755 to 700 (644
> >> to 600 if they are files). This provokes a file not found error when the
> >> user try to use the updated style, class, font or documentation.
>
> >> At the moment, I tame the issue by manually searching for the wrong right
> >> configurations and reverting them to the expected ones. This is a boring
> >> and a quite error-prone process that I would prefer to avoid.
>
> >> This behavior is occurring since TL2021
> >> I googled around but I can't find anything on the topic.
>
> >> Am I doing something wrong? Do you have a way to fix it?
>
> >> Thank you in advance for your help
>
> > What is the rumask for the root user?  That is probably the culprit.  If it
> > restricts group and other permissions, non-root users won't be able to see
> > it.  Then it might be a tlmgr issue, but I don't see tlmgr playing with the
> > umask for a user.
>
> Current umask for the root user is 0033 as far as I can far this should grand
> reading access to all users but directory should also need execution rights.
>
OK, this is the problem. Value 1 of a bit forbids the right, thus 0033
means no-write, no-execute for group and users while 0022 means just
no-write.

> I will try to add it. Thank you.
>
> Walter
>

Zdeněk Wagner
http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml


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