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Bug 97380 - /etc/limits installed with wrong permissions set
Summary: /etc/limits installed with wrong permissions set
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware: All All
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo's Team for Core System packages
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: 113473 127876 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2005-06-29 04:20 UTC by Nikolai Weibull
Modified: 2006-03-28 10:21 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Nikolai Weibull 2005-06-29 04:20:30 UTC 
The manual page for limits states that /etc/limits should be installed with read
permissions only granted to root.  Thus, instead of

-rw-r--r--  1 root root 725 Feb 10 21:35 /etc/limits

we should have

-rw-------  1 root root 725 Feb 10 21:35 /etc/limits

Either that, or the manual page is being overly paranoid about permissions and
should be updated instead.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
/etc/limits installed with too gratuitous permissions (644).

Expected Results:  
/etc/limits installed with restrictive permissions (600).
Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2005-06-29 20:29:59 UTC 
fixed in 4.0.10
Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-11-24 07:48:58 UTC 
*** Bug 113473 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-03-28 10:21:20 UTC 
*** Bug 127876 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***