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Re: UPG and the default umask



On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 07:10:14PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> As far as I understood,... you guys are already starting to patch
> unrelated software just to make UPG work (see 
> #581919).
> 
> Even the title of that "bug", "bad ownership or modes..." is
> ridiculous... and proves what I've predicted before, namely that these
> changes will compromise security (such a patch will also affect non UPG
> systems).

Reading the discussion in #314347, it looks like permission checks will
only get relaxed on UPG systems, which sounds sane to me.


Michael


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