Re: [vile] vile-9.7q.patch.gz

[Steven Lembark]

On Wed, 27 May 2009 07:05:29 -0400 (EDT)
Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Wed, 27 May 2009, Paul van Tilburg wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 06:10:18AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> >> On Wed, 27 May 2009, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> >>> On Wed, 27 May 2009, Paul van Tilburg wrote:
> >>>> Yes, the problem is that I can set popup-msgs in my .vilerc, but
> >>>> it is never reached because it's mode 664 and therefore ignored.
> >>>> So we seem to have a cyclic issue here.
> >>>
> >>> I see.  Is there a good reason for making dot-files 0664?  (I
> >>> don't do that of course; I do recall some pre-configured accounts
> >>> setting umask of 002, though it's easy to find opinions against
> >>> that).
> >
> > Yes, well.  It seems my shell sets umask 002 if the system has
> > user privacy groups, as is the default on Debian system at least.
> 
> There's probably some quick way to check for this configuration.
> Offhand I can only recall the call for obtaining the list of a user's
> groups (which doesn't seem pertinent).

This is same issue I sent the pseudo-code for: 
add a 'strict_modes' to reject writeable groups, 
otherwise only reject world-writeable files.



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