Bug#536195: dropbear remote boot feature exposes initramfs host keys to regular users

To: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
Cc: debian@x.ray.net, 536195@bugs.debian.org, Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
Subject: Bug#536195: dropbear remote boot feature exposes initramfs host keys to regular users
From: maximilian attems <max@stro.at>
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 03:10:03 +0100
Message-id: <20100325021003.GK21407@stro.at>
Reply-to: maximilian attems <max@stro.at>, 536195@bugs.debian.org

retitle 536195 document UMASK initramfs.conf usage
stop

ls -l /boot/initrd.img-2.6.33-2-amd64
-rw------- 1 root root 9589266 Mar 25 03:03 /boot/initrd.img-2.6.33-2-amd64

egrep UMASK /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf
UMASK=0077


this was not yet documented in initramfs.conf.5,
will be in next upload.

thanks for report.

-- 
maks

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