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Dag H. Wanvik commented on DERBY-5363:
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I am not sure that the property is backward, as suggested by Kathey's users: if
people remember to explicitly use "useSecureFilePermissions", they would
probably remember to set the correct umask/Windows directory permissions too.
The whole point of doing this is "to protect users against themselves", i.e.
provide a default that is secure rather than insecure.
The question then becomes, in what use cases, in what deployment modes, is this
protection a net benefit, and in which cases/deployment modes is the benefit
outweighed by inconvenience (upgrade hassle, need to use a property to get
sharing behavior).
I do think that in the server case, the argument is stronger for a secure
default, especially if authentication/authorization is enabled.
> Tighten default permissions of DB files with >= JDK6
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> 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,
> derby-5363-basic-2.diff, derby-5363-basic-2.stat, permission-5.diff,
> permission-5.stat, permission-6.diff, permission-6.stat, property-table.png,
> z.sql
>
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> 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.
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