From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 Description of problem: When the program "neat" is run from a user's account (GNOME Menu->System Settings->Network) with a umask that doesn't allow readable by all permission, the umask of the user is used for the updated /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf files. No matter what the umask of the user is, the files should have read permissions by all. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.umask 0027 2.GNOME Menu->System Settings->Network (enter root password) 3.Change the hosts listing or the network parameters 4."ls -l /etc/hosts" (or /etc/resolv.conf) shows the file is not readable by all. Actual Results: "ls -l /etc/hosts" shows permissions as "-rw-r-----" Expected Results: ls -l /etc/hosts should show permissions as "-rw-r--r--" Additional info:
yep, fixed in newer versions