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Re: Patch for permissions /var/lib/cfengine2
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Mark . Burgess |
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Re: Patch for permissions /var/lib/cfengine2 |
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Mon, 13 Oct 2003 00:15:17 +0200 (MEST) |
Why set directory permissions instead of setting the file permission?
I'm not sure this patch is generally desirable...
M
On 12 Oct, Daniel Parthey wrote:
> I am using Debian Gnu/Linux and the following package:
> cfengine2 2.0.9+2.1.0b3-1
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> In order to prevent any normal user to look into the cfengine files,
> I have set the directory permissions of /var/lib/cfengine2 to 700.
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> Unfortunately, each time cfengine was run, the permissions of VLOCKDIR
> which means /var/lib/cfengine2 were changed to 755.
> After this, the cfengine workdir has been accessible to everybody again.
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> I've attached a patch which should fix this problem.
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> Greets,
> Daniel
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