tags #331720 confirmed
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usertags #331720 valid-bug joerg-assigned
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On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 12:04:29AM +0200, Martin Geisler wrote:
> When making a backup with deluser, the resulting file is created like
> any other file made by root, and with my umask of 022 it is world
> readable.

Ouch.

> This is bad since then everybody who get hold of it has access to the
> old users files if the administrator does not take care to store the
> backup in some safe place.

You're absolutely right. This will be fixed. Do you think that a
hardcoded root:root 600 is fine, or does that need to be configuable?

Greetings
Marc

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