Package umask issues

Warren Togami wtogami at redhat.com
Tue Jul 12 06:13:21 UTC 2005


Florian La Roche wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 01:47:21AM +0200, Miloslav Trmac wrote:
> 
>>On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 12:33:17PM -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
>>
>>>This is only an issue for sysadmins when 
>>>they insist on using a system umask of 077 supposedly for some hardening 
>>>reason.
>>
>>Would it be too daring to suggest that this would be easiest to fix
>>in rpm by forcing umask to 022 before extracting files or running scripts?
> 
> 
> Yes, this should be set in rpm.
> 

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=163003
Filed for consideration in future FC rpm releases

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=163004
Cloned for RHEL update consideration

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com




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