Bug 3996 - rpm --rebuilddb creates files with current umask
Summary: rpm --rebuilddb creates files with current umask
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: rpm
Version: 6.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Jeff Johnson
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Reported: 1999-07-12 06:40 UTC by v.kuhlmann
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 1999-08-16 19:09:01 UTC
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Description v.kuhlmann 1999-07-12 06:40:01 UTC 
I just installed the updated rpm-3.0.2-6.0, and did a
--rebuilddb (although strictly not necessary). It turns out
that the files under /var/lib/rpm are recreated with the
current umask of root, i.e. 600. (I anyway run root with
umask 077)

This should not be the case. THese files should always get
644.
Comment 1 Jay Turner 1999-07-12 14:56:59 UTC 
Indeed the files in /var/lib/rpm get written with root's umask, so in
the case of a 077 umask, all of the files are getting written RW for
root only.  Not sure whether this is a problem or not, but have
forwarded it to a developer for further action.
Comment 2 Jeff Johnson 1999-08-16 19:09:59 UTC 
Unset umask before rebuilding the database. There's no way that
rpm can identify that /var/lib/rpm/* should be mode 0644 or mode 0600.
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