Bug 53294 - font installer doesnt check permissions on new fonts
Summary: font installer doesnt check permissions on new fonts
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 52678
Alias: None
Product: kcontrol
Classification: Miscellaneous
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Compiled Sources Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Daniel Molkentin
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Reported: 2003-01-23 03:22 UTC by Jeff Snyder
Modified: 2003-01-23 10:45 UTC (History)
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Description Jeff Snyder 2003-01-23 03:22:13 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.0.99)
Installed from:    Compiled From Sources
Compiler:          gcc 3.2.1 
OS:          Linux

a while back ( i may have been using an earlier beta/rc of 3.1 at this time) i installed my windows fonts to my linux fonts dirs using the font intsaller..
the fonts looked great, apart from that when i viewed certain web pages in konqueror, parts of them came up with all the characters as squares :-(
(i never bothered to fix it because the same webpages worked in mozilla for some reason)

today i figured out that this was because the fonts were set to permissions -rw-------, which is how they the permissions that the whole windows partition had when they were copied.

doing a chmod +r (set world-readable) on all the fonts in the truetype dir fixed the problem completely. so...
maybe there should be a check on installing fonts that makes sure that the fonts are world-readable and prompts the user/administrator to change the permissions automatically if they arent?
Comment 1 Aaron J. Seigo 2003-01-23 10:45:40 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 52678 ***