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Id: 67854
Status: resolved
Priority: 0/
Queue: CGI
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Owner: Nobody in particular
Requestors: ping.liang [...] gmail.com
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  Fri Apr 29 20:55:10 2011 ping07642 [...] netscape.net - Ticket created
Subject: Test t/tmpdir.t fails at the 3rd test...
When using CPAN to install CGI under user root in Fedora, test t/tmpdir.t fails at the 3rd test, where CGITempFile->new is supposed to skip the directory that is not writeable. The problem is user root can always write to the $test_dir, even after chmod 0500. In other words, if ( -w $CGITempFile::TMPDIRECTORY ) { # root always comes here. } This code never has problem when the user is not root.
  Thu May 05 16:12:54 2011 mark [...] summersault.com - Correspondence added
Subject: Re: [rt.cpan.org #67854] Test t/tmpdir.t fails at the 3rd test...
Date: Thu, 05 May 2011 16:12:46 -0400
To: bug-CGI.pm [...] rt.cpan.org
From: Mark Stosberg <mark [...] summersault.com>
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> > When using CPAN to install CGI under user root in Fedora, test t/tmpdir.t > fails at the 3rd test, where CGITempFile->new is supposed to skip the > directory that is not writeable. > > The problem is user root can always write to the $test_dir, even after > chmod 0500. In other words, > > if ( -w $CGITempFile::TMPDIRECTORY ) { > # root always comes here. > } > > This code never has problem when the user is not root.
Thanks for figuring this out! If you'd like to contribute a patch, I'll be happy to credit you for it in the next release. Mark
  Thu May 05 16:12:57 2011 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Sat Jan 19 21:15:21 2013 MARKSTOS [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
I think this was a dupe of RT#67854, for a which a fix was already released. Resolving.
  Sat Jan 19 21:15:49 2013 MARKSTOS [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'
  Fri May 23 14:29:37 2014 The RT System itself - Queue changed from CGI.pm to CGI