Greg Hudson wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 17:42, Tobias Ringström wrote:
>
>>The holy grail would of course be to prevent a user with a bad umask
>>(for example) to wedge the repos for all the other users. Doing so would
>>definately involve messing with permissions, and it would be hard to get
>>it right, IMHO.
>
>>From BDB's point of view, it's not very hard: when a new log file is
> created, chmod() it to match the mode of the database it belongs to.
> There's never any good reason for a log file to have a different mode
> than the database itself. Keith Bostic has agreed to look into making
> this hapen in a future version of BDB, though it's not clear whether
> that will be 4.2.x (due out later this year) or some indefinite future
> version.
Nice. The BDB layer feels like the right place to fix this.
I wonder if it will work with systems using ACLs though (e.g. Windows),
but maybe those systems do not have a problem as it is. Even if it only
improves systems with the (limited) traditional UNIX filesystem security
(uid,gid,umask), it would most likely be worth the effort.
/Tobias
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Received on Sat Sep 6 12:26:33 2003