>>>>> "Scott" == Scott Gifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Scott> Michael Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> >>>>> "Torsten" == Torsten Landschoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Torsten> What do you think? I wanted to attach a simple patch but
Torsten> since fopen is used for opening the file and since there
Torsten> is a windows port of libpcap it is not quite that
Torsten> easy. One could as well invoke umask in tcpdump's main if
Torsten> available.
>> I suggest:
>>
>> #if UNIX
>> if(getuid()==0 || geteuid()!=getuid()) { /* or some other appropriate
variation*/
>> umask(022);
>> }
>> #endif
Scott> I don't think it's ever appropriate to make a user's umask *more*
Scott> permissive without letting them override it. To just make it less
Scott> permissive, something like:
Sure, that's a better idea.
Scott> I think the fact that I think a umask of 077 is appropriate and
Scott> Michael thinks a umask of 022 is appropriate is enough to hint that
Scott> maybe we should just honor the user's umask after all.
I am mostly indifferent --- I typically use tcpdump only on my notebook,
and I'm the only user.
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