Re: [PATCH] ssh: don't make the umask more permissive than the user has set

2022-10-07 Thread Alex Henrie
On 10/6/22 16:46, Damien Miller wrote: > On Tue, 4 Oct 2022, Alex Henrie wrote: > >> Daniel Kahn Gillmor suggested this exact change on the openssh-unix-dev >> mailing list in 2008, but I couldn't find any reply. [1] >> >> Ignoring the current umask m

[PATCH] ssh: don't make the umask more permissive than the user has set

2022-10-04 Thread Alex Henrie
Daniel Kahn Gillmor suggested this exact change on the openssh-unix-dev mailing list in 2008, but I couldn't find any reply. [1] Ignoring the current umask makes it hard to fulfill the Defense Information Systems Agency's Security Technical Implementation Guide. In particular, it requires: "The R

Re: [PATCH v3 (resend)] tee: Add -q, --quiet, --silent option to not write to stdout

2021-03-15 Thread Alex Henrie
On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 11:42 AM Alex Henrie wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 3:44 AM Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) > wrote: > > > > On 1/25/21 5:03 AM, Bernhard Voelker wrote: > > > OTOH I understand that there's a little gap in the tool landscape. > &g

Re: [PATCH v3 (resend)] tee: Add -q, --quiet, --silent option to not write to stdout

2021-03-15 Thread Alex Henrie
On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 3:44 AM Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote: > > On 1/25/21 5:03 AM, Bernhard Voelker wrote: > > OTOH I understand that there's a little gap in the tool landscape. > > Astonishingly, there doesn't seem to exist a trivial tool to redirect > > from standard input (or any othe

Re: [PATCH v3 (resend)] tee: Add -q, --quiet, --silent option to not write to stdout

2021-01-26 Thread Alex Henrie
On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 9:04 PM Bernhard Voelker wrote: > > An off-tech argument: ask a local plumber if he'd would ever use > a tee piece instead of a pipe end piece. I guess he would only > if he wouldn't have anything else at hand. According to POSIX, tee writes to "zero or more files."[1] So

Re: [PATCH v3 (resend)] tee: Add -q, --quiet, --silent option to not write to stdout

2021-01-24 Thread Alex Henrie
On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 10:51 AM Otto Moerbeek wrote: > > Please stop pushing your diff to this list. So far nobody showed any > interest. I am definitely interested. Bernhard Voelker seemed to express interest as well, conditional on -q being added to POSIX first.[1] Also, a --quiet flag was pro