[Companion] bug and resolution, using Y! toolbar with firefox on debian

[petar marinov]

Installing the Yahoo toolbar (0.5.4) on firefox (1.0) for debian testing 
works fine for the root user but fails for all other users. Using strace 
I figured the problem.

The directory yahootoolbar_saves is created in such a way (attributes) 
that it prohibits any further access, then Y! toolbar fails all file 
operations.

attributes are:
drw-r--r--  2 petarma eng   4096 2004-11-29 17:32 yahootoolbar_saves/

To fix the problem I did this:
chmod u+x yahootoolbar_saves

it results in:
drwxr--r--  2 petarma eng   4096 2004-11-30 07:57 yahootoolbar_saves/

I believe you can provide the appropriate attributes when creating the 
directory. I would've filed a bug report but bugzilla on mozdev.org is 
currently broken.

-petar
http://geocities.com/h2428