[Pkg-gnutls-maint] Bug#373169: Bug#373169: please set permissions on key output to 600

martin f krafft madduck at debian.org
Fri May 16 17:46:46 UTC 2008


also sprach Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg-debian.org at fifthhorseman.net> [2008.05.16.1807 +0100]:
> Better would be to call umask(S_IRGRP|S_IWGRP|S_IROTH|S_IWOTH)
> before opening the output file (and set it back afterward, if you
> care).

Why not rely on a tempfile() method to create a tempfile with
restrictive permissions, which is then moved into place?

Umask fiddling is, however, another possibility.

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