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[fetchmail-devel] documentation inconsistency - fetchmailrc permissions

[Petr U. <pet...@su...>]

Hello,

there seems to be a little incosistency between fetchmail manpage and the code 
itself :

The manpage claims that fetchmailrc can not have greater permissions than 600 
(u=rw) but fetchmail allows it to have 710 (u=rwx,g=x).

I'm not sure which maximum permissions are correct - whether 600 or 710. (600 
make better sense to me as I do not see any reason why fetchmailrc should 
have execute permission).


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Re: [fetchmail-devel] documentation inconsistency - fetchmailrc permissions

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

Petr Uzel schrieb:
> Hello,
> 
> there seems to be a little incosistency between fetchmail manpage and the code 
> itself :
> 
> The manpage claims that fetchmailrc can not have greater permissions than 600 
> (u=rw) but fetchmail allows it to have 710 (u=rwx,g=x).
> 
> I'm not sure which maximum permissions are correct - whether 600 or 710. (600 
> make better sense to me as I do not see any reason why fetchmailrc should 
> have execute permission).

Thanks for pointing this out; "executable" makes some sense if you put

#! /usr/bin/fetchmail -f

as the first line of your rcfile.

I'll concede that 0710 isn't really sensible, since fetchmail needs to read
the file and would require g=rx if you're not the owner (user)... but I'm
not restricting it now for compatibility reasons.

6.3.9 will document 0700 but silently permit g+x for the nonce.

Fixed in SVN r5211.

The SVN repository is hosted at <http://mknod.org/svn/fetchmail/>, we're
currently on <http://mknod.org/svn/fetchmail/branches/BRANCH_6-3/>, in case
you want to pull a diff and patch.

Best regards
Matthias

Re: [fetchmail-devel] documentation inconsistency - fetchmailrc permissions

[Petr U. <pet...@su...>]

> > I'm not sure which maximum permissions are correct - whether 600 or 710.
> > (600 make better sense to me as I do not see any reason why fetchmailrc
> > should have execute permission).
>
> Thanks for pointing this out; "executable" makes some sense if you put
>
> #! /usr/bin/fetchmail -f
>
> as the first line of your rcfile.

Hmm, I didn't realize this....

> 6.3.9 will document 0700 but silently permit g+x for the nonce.

Great. Do you have any idea when 6.3.9 will be out?

Thanks,


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Re: [fetchmail-devel] documentation inconsistency - fetchmailrc permissions

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

Petr Uzel <pet...@su...> writes:

>> 6.3.9 will document 0700 but silently permit g+x for the nonce.
>
> Great. Do you have any idea when 6.3.9 will be out?

"soon" - given that I've no regression reports yet, I presume somewhen
July. Hopefully first half, but no promises.

fetchmail is currently strictly a spare-time one-man show.

HTH

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Matthias Andree