Re: Bug#581434: UPG and the default umask
On Sat, 15 May 2010, Andreas Hemel wrote:
> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 01:21:41PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Vincent Danjean wrote:
> > > I'm happy with this move. However, there is still an interaction with ssh
> > > to deal with:
> >
> > > vdanjean@eyak:~$ chmod -Rv g+w .ssh/authorized_keys
> > > vdanjean@eyak:~$ ssh localhost
> > > vdanjean@localhost's password:
> > > And, in /var/log/auth.log:
> > > May 14 09:42:17 eyak sshd[1618]: Authentication refused: bad ownership or modes for file /home/vdanjean/.ssh/authorized_keys
> >
> > maildrop has the same problem with .mailfilter files.
>
> As does exim with .forward files. Should this be reported as a bug
> against exim, now that the default umask will change?
I think so.
Ideally, we should support both 022 and 002 as umask.
Unfortunately, we have been using 022 for so long that we don't even
know what things have to be changed so that "everything works" when
umask is 002.
So, for practical purposes, setting 002 as the default umask is
probably the best (or maybe just the only) way to discover what needs
to be fixed when the umask is 002.
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