53850 – improper .fetchmailrc permission

Bug 53850 - improper .fetchmailrc permission

Summary: improper .fetchmailrc permission

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	[OLD] Docs-user
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Other (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High trivial (vote)
Assignee:	Tobias Scherbaum (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2004-06-13 21:13 UTC by James Clark
Modified:	2004-06-24 05:50 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description James Clark 2004-06-13 21:13:37 UTC

Code Listing 2.2 suggests that .fetchmailrc should be made executable.

# chmod 710 .fetchmailrc

I would suggest that .fetchmailrc should be made read-writable to only the user that owns the file, and not executable i.e:

# chmod 600 .fetchmailrc



Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Tobias Scherbaum (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-06-24 05:50:08 UTC

Fixed in CVS.