Subject: /etc/ipsec.conf permissions
To: None <tech-security@netbsd.org>
From: Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>
List: tech-security
Date: 04/15/2003 14:40:06
So our current /etc/mtree/special file says:
./etc/ipsec.conf type=file mode=0644 optional
If there are actual keys in this file (a bad idea, I know, because you
should be using racoon, but still), there are two problems here:
1. You don't get warned when your keys are world-readable.
2. Your keys are mailed out in cleartext, possibly over the Internet,
depending on where your root mail is forwarded.
(I found it rather ironic that it was a script named /etc/security that
exposed my keys to the world.)
Anyway, if there are no objections, I will change this to:
./etc/ipsec.conf type=file mode=0600 optional tags=nodiff
cjs
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