[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#629341: virtinst: fails if umask isn't permissive

[Rob Browning]

Rob Browning <rlb at defaultvalue.org> writes:

> If the relevant files are just temporary files that are used during the
> install, then I'd suggest that they be written with umask 002 to a
> securely created temp dir, i.e. via "mktemp --tmpdir -d", or in python:
>
>   tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix='virtinst-tmp')

Oh, and of course I meant a "securely created *public* temp dir", which
I believe this should do by default.

And the umask would either have to be changed before the
tempfile.mkdtemp() call, or the directory's permissions would have to be
changed to 755 after.

Thanks
-- 
Rob Browning
rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org
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