Bug 1088756

Summary:	Wrong permission for configuration file /etc/sysconfig/virt-who
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Radek Novacek <rnovacek>
Component:	virt-who	Assignee:	Radek Novacek <rnovacek>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	gaoshang <sgao>
Severity:	unspecified	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	5.11	CC:	liliu, ovasik, shihliu
Target Milestone:	rc
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Hardware:	Unspecified
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Fixed In Version:	virt-who-0.9-2.el5	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	Cause: Configuration file for virt-who had wrong permission and was world-readable, although it can contain passwords. Consequence: Any user could read the passwords from the configuration file. Fix: Change the permissions to be root-readable only. Result: Non-root users can't read passwords from the configuration files.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2014-09-16 00:29:29 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Bug Blocks:	1088732

Description Radek Novacek 2014-04-17 06:51:06 UTC

Configuration file /etc/sysconfig/virt-who may contain passwords but its permissions are 644 (rw-r--r--). It should be 600 (rw-------) to prevent non-root users to read the configuration file.

Comment 1 RHEL Program Management 2014-04-17 07:18:20 UTC

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion
in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux release.  Product Management has
requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for
potential inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux release for currently
deployed products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in
a release.

Comment 2 Radek Novacek 2014-04-17 08:07:45 UTC

Fixed in virt-who-0.9-2.el5.

The fix only affects new installations (when the config file not yet exists), it might break some user workflow when we would change that for existing installations.

Comment 4 Liushihui 2014-04-28 03:36:45 UTC

Verified on virt-who-0.9-2.el5
Configuration file /etc/sysconfig/virt-who permissions has updated to 600 (rw-------)
[root@dhcp-128-110 libvirt-test-API]# ls -al /etc/sysconfig/virt-who 
-rw------- 1 root root 2088 Apr 27 21:55 /etc/sysconfig/virt-who

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2014-09-16 00:29:29 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2014-1206.html