[mirror-admin] Fedora 9 bits: ACTION NEEDED BY MIRROR ADMINS

[Chuck Anderson]

On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 07:19:22AM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
> On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 07:45:19AM -0400, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> > On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 11:20:09PM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
> > The bits are still 755 on download*.fedora.redhat.com, so anyone mirroring
> > the stuff from them will have it wide open again on the next rsync even if
> > manually chmoded to 700.
> 
> yes, just caught this; in fact they were 555 for a bit overnight, so
> people have been downloading directly from d.f.r.c (with thanks to a
> planet.fp.o blog post....)
> 
> I set it back to 750, so mirrors can get the content without erasing
> it once again;  if the content continues to churn (e.g. Live/ wasn't
> quite populated 7 hours ago) so be it, at least mirrors won't erase
> and re-download.

I've changed my permissions on releases/9 like so for the time being 
to prevent accidental permission changes on the next rsync:

chown root:mirror releases/9
chmod 770 releases/9

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