Package: virtinst Version: 0.500.6-1 If the umask is set to 007, virt-install will fail with an error like this:
qemu: could not load kernel '/home/rlb/.virtinst/boot/virtinst-linux.sQocL_': Permission denied Ideally, virt-install shouldn't be affected by the user's umask, and shouldn't require a world-accessible $HOME. If the relevant files are just temporary files that are used during the install, then I'd suggest that they be written with umask 002 to a securely created temp dir, i.e. via "mktemp --tmpdir -d", or in python: tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix='virtinst-tmp') Another reason to make this change is that requiring $HOME/.virtinst to be world-readable guarantees that any vnc passwords will be readable system-wide (via the log). (Feel free to adjust the severity to wishlist if that seems more appropriate.) Thanks -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org GPG as of 2002-11-03 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
