Github user skrewz commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/1302#discussion_r97520807 --- Diff: nifi-bootstrap/src/main/java/org/apache/nifi/bootstrap/RunNiFi.java --- @@ -1027,19 +1028,24 @@ public boolean accept(final File dir, final String filename) { cmd.add("-Dorg.apache.nifi.bootstrap.config.log.dir=" + nifiLogDir); cmd.add("org.apache.nifi.NiFi"); if (props.containsKey(NIFI_BOOTSTRAP_SENSITIVE_KEY) && !StringUtils.isBlank(props.get(NIFI_BOOTSTRAP_SENSITIVE_KEY))) { - cmd.add("-k " + props.get(NIFI_BOOTSTRAP_SENSITIVE_KEY)); + File password_file = new File(confDir, "sensitive.key"); + + // Restrict permissions: + password_file.setReadable(false,false); --- End diff -- I went with `setReadable()`/`setWritable()` because of them not tying into POSIX more than necessary. But I guess we're relying on POSIX anyway. And at either rate: checking (and erroring out on) the return values indeed is an omission.
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