[Bug 429466] [NEW] prelude-manager files not readable by prelude (permissions)

[John Moser]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: prelude-manager

As per bug #91559, installing prelude-manager does not automatically
create the prelude-manager prelude user.

In the 0.9.14.1-1 prelude-manager package in Ubuntu 9.04, the UID and
GID must be specified as the system UID and GID of the prelude user and
group (rather than both as 0, as noted in #91559).

After doing this manually with prelude-admin, prelude still fails to
start.  It cannot read the prelude-manager analyzerid file, in
/etc/prelude/profiles/prelude-manager/

The reason for this failure is prelude runs as prelude:prelude; however,
the entire /etc/prelude/ tree is owned by root:root and mode rwXr-Xr-X
(755 for directories, 744 for files).

The fix for this is to change ownership to root:prelude for the entire
tree.  It may also be necessary to change permissions to rwXrwXr-X (775
for directories, 774 for files).

Because of this entire situation, creation of the prelude-manager user
(as per workaround in bug #91559) doesn't get prelude running, and
completely confuses some users (i.e. me) who aren't expecting a second
problem.

** Affects: prelude-manager (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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prelude-manager files not readable by prelude (permissions)
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