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