[PATCH] Re-add umask(0) code removed by commit 3a7c2777ee0de37d758fe81d67d6836a8354825e

Andreas Schneider asn at samba.org
Tue Jun 18 01:16:03 MDT 2013


On Monday 17 June 2013 17:10:37 Jeremy Allison wrote:
> Fix bug introduced by commit 3a7c2777ee0de37d758fe81d67d6836a8354825e.
> 
> Re-add umask(0) needed when creating pipes. Directory access
> control is sufficient to ensure pipe access is secure, and
> without the umask(0) then properly authorized processes
> (the nss libraries) cannot connect.
> 
> This took far longer than it should have to track down at
> the Microsoft interop event :-).


Following the codepath of directory_create_or_exist_strict() I see that this 
function correctly sets the umask. So I don't see a reason beside making sure 
that if someone calls another function than directory_create_or_exist_strict() 
umask is set ...


	-- andreas



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