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Date:      Sat, 13 Jul 2019 16:48:27 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r349976 - head
Message-ID:  <201907131648.x6DGmRc4090395@repo.freebsd.org>

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Author: ian
Date: Sat Jul 13 16:48:27 2019
New Revision: 349976
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/349976

Log:
  Add an entry mentioning the permission/mode change to daily accounting files.

Modified:
  head/UPDATING

Modified: head/UPDATING
==============================================================================
--- head/UPDATING	Sat Jul 13 16:32:19 2019	(r349975)
+++ head/UPDATING	Sat Jul 13 16:48:27 2019	(r349976)
@@ -31,6 +31,14 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 13.x IS SLOW:
 	disable the most expensive debugging functionality run
 	"ln -s 'abort:false,junk:false' /etc/malloc.conf".)
 
+20190713:
+    Default permissions on the /var/account/acct file (and copies of it rotated 
+    by periodic daily scripts) are changed from 0644 to 0640 because the file 
+    contains sensitive information that should not be world-readable.  If the 
+    /var/account directory must be created by rc.d/accounting, the mode used is 
+    now 0750.  Admins who use the accounting feature are encouraged to change 
+    the mode of an existing /var/account directory to 0750 or 0700.  
+
 20190620:
 	Entropy collection and the /dev/random device are no longer optional
 	components.  The "device random" option has been removed.



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