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Kathey Marsden commented on DERBY-5363: --------------------------------------- I think it would be good to get feedback from the user community. Some response that I got this week when I approached a group about the change was: "... that seems backward. Why not keep the current behavior and have a derby.storage.useSecureFilePermissions=true property? I know there are times when a component *really* needs to change default behavior, but it should only be after a lot of consideration and adopter buy-in" Can you ask for more input on the user list? > Tighten default permissions of DB files with >= JDK6 > ---------------------------------------------------- > > Key: DERBY-5363 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-5363 > Project: Derby > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Dag H. Wanvik > Attachments: derby-5363-basic-1.diff, derby-5363-basic-1.stat, > permission-5.diff, permission-5.stat, permission-6.diff, permission-6.stat, > property-table.png, z.sql > > > Before Java 6, files created by Derby would have the default > permissions of the operating system context. Under Unix, this would > depend on the effective umask of the process that started the Java VM. > In Java 6 and 7, there are methods available that allows tightening up this > (File.setReadable, setWritable), making it less likely that somebody > would accidentally run Derby with a too lenient default. > I suggest we take advantage of this, and let Derby by default (in Java > 6 and higher) limit the visibility to the OS user that starts the VM, > e.g. on Unix this would be equivalent to running with umask 0077. More > secure by default is good, I think. > We could have a flag, e.g. "derby.storage.useDefaultFilePermissions" > that when set to true, would give the old behavior. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira