Re: Permissions in etc.tgz

[Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost>]

On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 12:39:01 +0100, Edgar Fuss wrote:

> VU> Current or branch, if a branch - which one?
> Sorry, I forgot to write it's 6_STABLE. I verified that in the official 
> 6.1.5 etc.tgz, it's the same.
> 
> EF> First, ./etc/spwd.db is 0644 (while one wants 0600).
> VU> And what are the owner/group?
> root/wheel. But it's world readable.

I guess this should have been fixed by

src/etc/Makefile revision 1.403
date: 2013-01-30 00:21:02 +0400;  author: christos;  state: Exp;  lines: +5 -3;
spwd.db should be 0600 (Brooks Davis)

which was not pulled up.  Christos?


> VU> This looks like http://gnats.netbsd.org/47947
> Ah, thanks. I guess that should be pulled up to 6, shouldn't it?

It seems to have fallen through the proverbial cracks.  I have
requested the pullup.


-uwe