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Re: Problem with special permissions of config file



On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 08:14:52PM +0200, Stefan Hornburg (Racke) wrote:
> 
> My package courier-authmysql has a configuration file where the
> password for the MySQL database can be stored. So I set this
> file to 600 in postinst. But dpkg put the backup file .dpkg-old
> in the same directory with 622 which seems a rather bad idea
> to me. Is there anything I can do about it ?
> 
> It is a potato backport where this happened, I didn't try it
> out on sid.

Set the perms in the package, so the file gets installed with the
correct perms. Don't set perms in postinst like this.

Ben

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