Re: [exim-dev] fopen(), umask, and file permissions

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Autor: Marc Haber
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To: exim-dev
Betreff: Re: [exim-dev] fopen(), umask, and file permissions
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 04:20:57PM +0000, Philip Hazel wrote:
> I don't like 777[*] because I might overlook something, thereby causing
> a disaster. 077 is probably OK, because Exim itself only relies on the
> owner field; the group field is often set for eximon etc, but not for
> Exim itself.


How about setting umask 077, creating an fopen wrapper which takes a
mode as well, and adding code to the testsuite that greps through the
code and raises an alarm whenever it finds an unwrapped fopen() call
outside the wrapper itself?

Greetings
Marc

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