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Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 11:18:35 +0300
From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
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To: Shaddy Baddah <lithium-cygwin@shaddybaddah.name>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: rebase db perms seem too restrictive
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Greetings, Shaddy Baddah!

> I expect that there wasn't any explicit reasoning behind this, but
> rebase creates a db with permissions that are too restrictive. To me
> anyway, as I cannot see any danger in the db being readable by all.

> This snippet describes it:

> <snip>
> $ whoami
> sbaddah
> $ od -c /etc/rebase.db.x86_64
> od: /etc/rebase.db.x86_64: Permission denied
> $ ls -l /etc/rebase.db.x86_64
> -rw-rw---- 1 portapps None 86020 Nov 11 15:34 /etc/rebase.db.x86_64
> </snip>

> I've attached an untested patch that would allow at least world readable
> perms. It would be appreciated if it was applied :-)

There's no reason or need for this file to be world readable.
Even more, I think the fact that there's group access perms is a consequence
of shallow translation of ACLs to POSIX permissions, given the group name and
the fact you're unable to access the file.


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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 17.11.2014, <11:16>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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