{"id":23,"date":"2008-01-21T21:26:23","date_gmt":"2008-01-22T04:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brunerd.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/21\/office-2008-for-the-executive\/"},"modified":"2008-01-24T09:17:16","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T16:17:16","slug":"office-2008-for-the-executive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brunerd.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/21\/office-2008-for-the-executive\/","title":{"rendered":"Office 2008 for the ‘executive’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night, while groggily honing in on the Office 2008 installer package UID problems, I missed another glaringly obvious defect: All the files are set executable<\/strong>, yes those files owned by 502 are also set executable. Take a look again at the lsbom dump<\/a> you’ll see this everywhere: 100775. For the first two: the 10 means it’s a file, 40 is a directory. The last three (775) are significant: 7 is 4+2+1 (4:read, 2:write, 1:execute) and 5 is… that’s right: 4+1, read and execute privileges.<\/p>\n

Now tell me does… \/Microsoft Office 2008\/Read Me.html<\/code> need to be executable for you to look at it? Tick, tick, tick, *ding*! No. It does not let’s do another!
\nDoes this god awful GIF bullet? \/Microsoft Office 2008\/Office\/Media\/Clipart\/Bullets.localized\/Red Swirl<\/code> No. But it is.
\nOk. One more: \/Microsoft Office 2008\/Office\/Media\/Sounds\/Yeehaw<\/code>? Yeah, you’re getting it. No.<\/p>\n

The only things that needs execute privileges are directories (that’s application bundles too) and executables such as: Microsoft Word.app\/Contents\/MacOS\/Microsoft Word<\/code><\/p>\n

And can you remove this execute bit in Finder? No. You have 3 choices, Read & Write, Read Only, and No Access, flip through them all and the x will still be there. You’ll need to chmod it from the terminal, but be careful, not all of them… or just give chmod -R ugo-x *<\/code> a whirl, then slowly go through and chmod go+x the executables one by one and see if it still works, might be faster than the inverse… but I haven’t tested anything yet, that’s for work tommorrow… and the next day… in the mean time…<\/p>\n

Try this: ls -lFGR \/Applications\/Microsoft\\ Office\\ 2008<\/code><\/p>\n

You’ll be seeing red<\/a>. :D<\/p>\n

BTW: Just in case, the media I am using is Part No: X13-64625-03, I hope MS can fix this and re-press this for Volume License customers — my day job! And speaking of just in case, thanks ‘justincase’ of the Clix forums for pointing out the glaringly obvious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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