[Joey Hess] > The only real solution to this bug is to remove support for > passwords in the proxy setting. Making the file mode 600 by default, > or even only if a password is present cripples the system for > regular users by breaking apt-get source and hardly makes it anymore > secure anyway.
An option is to only support the http_proxy and ftp_proxy environment variables, but this is painful in other ways (bug #123144). Another option is to move the proxy settings to a separate file and read this file too. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]