[Pythonmac-SIG] Permission of package installed by mpkgs...

[Christopher Barker]

Hi all,

I just helped a friend install the PIL mpgk from:

http://www.pythonmac.org/packages/py24-fat/

On an OS-X 1-0.4.* Intel Mac.

After installing, "import Image" still didn't work, so we went poking 
into /Library.Frameworks,.....etc, and found that indeed, the PIL dir 
and PIL.pth has been installed in site-packages, but that neither had 
read permissions for anyone but the owner, and the owner was set to 
"localadm", rather than "root" or the name of the user that ran the 
installer.

When we added read permissions for all, it now works fine, but what the 
heck is going on?

By the way, we were not asked for the admin password when running the 
installer.

On my machine (PPC 10.4.7), I notice that PIL is owned by me (the user 
that installed it), but also has no read perms for anyone but the owner. 
As I'm the owner, it works for me, but that doesn't seem right.

One other difference between the two machines: I think my friend's is 
set up to authenticate off a Windows Domain controller, which might have 
something to do with why his got installed by "localadmin", rather than 
himself.

As I look at my site-packages dir, things are a bit messy. Most stuff is 
owned by me, with a smattering owned by root, but all have a+r perms, 
except PIL. this stuff is a mixture of packages installed from mpkgs and 
regular old setup.py install.

What's going on? How should this work? I have no idea how, but my 
thought is that mpkgs should ask for a password, then install as root. 
Of course with the appropriate read permissions.

-Chris





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