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Re: /etc/mailname file permission



Thanks for your feedback. I believe my puppet changed the mode of this file for some unknown reason and I will reset it back to 644.




On Friday, June 13, 2014 12:53 PM, Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
On Vi, 13 iun 14, 01:46:03, ML mail wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On my system the /etc/mailname file has permission 600 and some tools 

Both my wheezy and sid installs have 644.




> such as git tries to access to this file. Due to this restrictive 
> permission it can't access it. Now what should be the permission of 
> this file on a Debian 7 wheezy server? I guess 644 should be fine, 
> there is in my opinion nothing "secret" in that file which would 
> require a permission of 600?

Sounds reasonable.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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