Bug 15404 - Wrong default umask
Summary: Wrong default umask
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: bash
Version: 7.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-08-04 15:47 UTC by Christian Rose
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-08-04 18:51:18 UTC
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Description Christian Rose 2000-08-04 15:47:52 UTC
The default umask in Pinstripe is 002 (rwxrwxr-x).
While this is fine for the default setting where each user belongs to his
own group, it is less suited for the scenario where each user belongs to
the same group by default. In that case, this umask is fatal security-wise.

I think that the umask 022 (rwxr-xr-x) should be used as the default, as it
is safe in both scenarios.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2000-08-04 18:51:16 UTC
As discussed on testers-list, we aren't changing this.

Comment 2 Christian Rose 2000-08-04 20:12:32 UTC
My bad. Closing this.



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