Re: [Pan-users] Save attachment file permissions

2009-02-17 Thread Paul Crawford (at UoD)
Dear Duncan, But where is your umask set, and would however you invoke pan get that same umask or not? IOW, presumably you start pan from a desktop menu I did not check that, but given that 'touch' from terminal, Opera and Thunderbird all do the same, I guess it is 022 for all (not sure if I

Re: [Pan-users] Save attachment file permissions

2009-02-16 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 07:30:55 am Paul Crawford wrote: > I just tried saving a suspect file of the avi.exe sort to see how > it behaved under LINUX using Pan 0.132 and I found it used '755' > permission settings thus rendering it (theoretically, at least) > executable. Oh boy. I've just confirmed th

[Pan-users] Save attachment file permissions

2009-02-16 Thread Paul Crawford
I just tried saving a suspect file of the avi.exe sort to see how it behaved under LINUX using Pan 0.132 and I found it used '755' permission settings thus rendering it (theoretically, at least) executable. OK, I know this is a Windows virus file, but it seems very bad practice as no doubt som