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Date:      Fri, 17 May 2002 15:20:28 +0100
From:      Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
To:        arch@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
Subject:   Restricting umasks in periodic scripts
Message-ID:  <200205171420.g4HEKSWs093218@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>

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Hi,

I'd like to poll arch for opinions on the attached patch.  Whilst 
I believe I've plugged all of the existing umask-type problems in 
-current (soon to be MFC'd re@ willing), it's usually better to be 
safe.

Cheers.
-- 
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>                    <brian@freebsd-services.com>
      <http://www.Awfulhak.org>;                   <brian@[uk.]FreeBSD.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !          <brian@[uk.]OpenBSD.org>

Index: crontab
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/etc/crontab,v
retrieving revision 1.31
diff -u -r1.31 crontab
--- crontab	19 Feb 2001 02:47:41 -0000	1.31
+++ crontab	17 May 2002 14:16:59 -0000
@@ -17,9 +17,9 @@
 0	*	*	*	*	root	newsyslog
 #
 # do daily/weekly/monthly maintenance
-1	3	*	*	*	root	periodic daily
-15	4	*	*	6	root	periodic weekly
-30	5	1	*	*	root	periodic monthly
+1	3	*	*	*	root	umask 077; periodic daily
+15	4	*	*	6	root	umask 077; periodic weekly
+30	5	1	*	*	root	umask 077; periodic monthly
 #
 # time zone change adjustment for wall cmos clock,
 # does nothing, if you have UTC cmos clock.



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