Problem with .ghci (fwd)

[Chris Webb]

Jose Emilio Labra Gayo <labra@pinon.ccu.uniovi.es> writes:

> However, if I write my own ".ghci", I obtain:
[...]
> *** WARNING: ./.ghci is writable by someone else, IGNORING!

Yes, I got bitten by this too! Just a guess, but are you using a system
which allocates a unique default group to every user and then sticks
with an 002 umask universally? If so, the quick fix is to 'chmod g-w'
the relevant .ghci files. If doing this annoys you too much, I guess you
could easily fix the checkPerms function (somewhere around line 200 of
InteractiveUI.hs) to understand that if you're the only member of a
group, it doesn't matter whether or not g+w is set.

Cheers,
Chris.