180837 – mail-filter/mimedefang-2.57: permissions of mimedefang-filter

Bug 180837 - mail-filter/mimedefang-2.57: permissions of mimedefang-filter

Summary: mail-filter/mimedefang-2.57: permissions of mimedefang-filter

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High trivial (vote)
Assignee:	Net-Mail Packages

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Reported:	2007-06-04 11:58 UTC by Ortwin Glueck
Modified:	2007-06-04 17:29 UTC (History)
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Description Ortwin Glueck 2007-06-04 11:58:47 UTC

The permissions of /etc/mail/mimedefang-filter are set to 400 on install. Should be 600. Read-only config files are a bit silly :-)

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Ortwin Glueck 2007-06-04 12:50:50 UTC

May even need to be 644 as mimedefang does not run as root usually.

Comment 2 Andrej Kacian (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-06-04 17:29:14 UTC

I sort of like stuff in /etc being read-only, for the added confirmation before
overwriting a file, but I agree that it's non-standard and it's up to everyone
to decide if they want this "protection". Fixed in CVS, thanks.