Re: [Xen-devel] [OSSTEST PATCH] MaxUmask: enforce a maximum umask value

2017-10-18 Thread Roger Pau Monné
On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 12:10:38PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > On some operating systems, the default umask is not 002 as it should > be (for the sensible setup with personal groups). > > If a user with an 022 or 077 umask invokes osstest in Executive mode, > they end up creating directories in $c

[Xen-devel] [OSSTEST PATCH] MaxUmask: enforce a maximum umask value

2017-10-17 Thread Ian Jackson
On some operating systems, the default umask is not 002 as it should be (for the sensible setup with personal groups). If a user with an 022 or 077 umask invokes osstest in Executive mode, they end up creating directories in $c{Logs} which are writeable only by them, and that can stop the whole sy