On Tuesday 23 September 2008, Eric Wilhelm wrote:
> # from chromatic
>
> # on Monday 22 September 2008 17:37:
> >> Yes. Would someone please explain to me how this issue is not
> >> already made a mostly non-issue by having a proper umask and running
> >> CPAN as non-root?
> >
> >If I were so inclined and had access to your machine, I could do a lot
> > of damage through such a mechanism without root access.
>
> There would be no "mechanism" because tar respects the umask by default
> when invoked as a non-root user. Thus, there are no world-writable
> files being unpacked from CPAN dists on my machine.
>
> Is a umask of 022 not the default setup? Shlomi?
>
The default Mandriva umask appears to be 0002 . I have the following line in
my default user's .bashrc:
{{{
umask 022
}}}
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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