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

Andreas Schneider asn at samba.org
Tue Jun 18 06:14:58 MDT 2013


On Tuesday 18 June 2013 17:58:16 Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-06-18 at 09:16 +0200, Andreas Schneider wrote:
> > 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 ...
> 
> Perhaps Jermey's patch is just over-broad, whereas it should have set it
> only over the socket() call?

Yes, than it would be clear it is only for the socket call.


	-- andreas

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