On Sun, Jun 05, 2011 at 01:20:19PM -0500, Rob Browning wrote: > > 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.
What uri are you using? In case of 'session' the qemu process is running as your user so there shouldn't be a problem. Please run with --debug. Cheers, -- Guido > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pkg-libvirt-maintainers mailing list > pkg-libvirt-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-libvirt-maintainers > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
