Perl permissions to close

[brixsat]

Why is by default perl closed to root? I have other users that would like to use perl and they cannot. What is the main reason for this? This is by normal yum install.

/usr/local/share $ ls -lha
total 4.0K
drwxr-xr-x. 7 root root 73 Apr 22 2024 .
drwxr-xr-x. 15 root root 178 Apr 22 2024 …
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 28 Oct 24 09:48 applications
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 6 May 16 2022 info
drwxrwxr-x. 3 kong kong 17 Apr 22 2024 lua
drwxr-xr-x. 21 root root 4.0K Jun 27 2023 man
drwx------. 3 root root 18 Apr 22 2024 perl5

Thanks in advance

[iwalker]

Rocky packages for perl install in /usr/share/perl5 - /usr/local is usually where you install stuff that you didn’t install from the Rocky repositories - therefore the permissions are wrong by whoever unpacked the tar/zip on your system or the rpm’s you manually downloaded from elsewhere or some third-party repository. If it is third-party rpm’s or repository then you need to contact whoever maintains it to get it fixed.

[jlehtone]

@brixsat

This is by normal yum install.

The ‘yum’ is now an alias for ‘dnf’.
The “normal” would mean “from Rocky’s package repositories”.

No Rocky’s package provides /usr/local/share/perl5, so it is not from “normal” package, or not from a package at all.