[Test-Announce] Important note regarding /root permissions for those who installed Fedora 20 pre-releases

[cornel panceac]

2013/12/13 Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com>

> Hi, folks. I wanted to draw the attention of anyone who used Fedora 20
> pre-release (Alpha, Beta, or TC/RC for Alpha, Beta or Final) to this
> issue:
>
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F20_bugs#.2Froot_permissions_incorrect_on_pre-release_installations
>
> Briefly, if you did use F20 pre-release - this includes yum or otherwise
> upgrading to F20 at any time the older 'rootfiles' package was in the
> F20 repos, that is any time prior to about 12-05 (testing) /12-11
> (stable) - permissions on the /root directory are likely to be 0755,
> which is probably not what most sysadmins would expect. You may wish to
> change them to 0550 or something similarly locked-down.
> --
>
Thank you. Indeed, it was 755. I have it installed since pre-Alpha.
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