Bug 76673 - mailer saves attachments with mode 600, doesn't use umask
Summary: mailer saves attachments with mode 600, doesn't use umask
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: evolution
Version: 8.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jeremy Katz
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-10-24 20:36 UTC by Don Himelrick
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:38 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2002-10-24 20:36:22 UTC

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Description Don Himelrick 2002-10-24 20:36:16 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003

Description of problem:
All attachments are saved as mode 600 instead of using the default umask setting
of 002 and creating them as 660.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Save attachment and move it to public location.
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Actual Results:  Other users cannot read the attachments.

Expected Results:  File should have group read permissions so others in the
group can read it.

Additional info:
Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2002-10-25 15:32:57 UTC 
This is an intentional design decision, and one shared by most MUAs.  It's much
better to be restrictive in what you save and require explicitly changing the
permissions than to have somebody inadvertently leave mail world readable on a
network filesystem.
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