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Date:      Wed, 4 Aug 1999 17:22:29 GMT
From:      Udo Schweigert <ust@cert.siemens.de>
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject:   bin/12967: File permissions after timezone changing with "tzsetup"
Message-ID:  <199908041722.RAA39205@alaska.cert.siemens.de>

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>Number:         12967
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       File permissions after timezone changing with "tzsetup"
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Aug  4 10:30:01 PDT 1999
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Udo Schweigert
>Release:        FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:

	FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE
	FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT

>Description:

After changing the timezone with /usr/sbin/tzsetup (or /stand/sysinstall)
the file /etc/localtime gets file permissions modified with the callers umask.
(If /etc/localtime is a symbolic links, things may be different)

So if umask is 077 the file has:

-r--------  1 root  wheel  287 Aug  4 17:17 /etc/localtime

With this permissions only uid 0 has the correct zone, the others fall back
to UTC.

>How-To-Repeat:

# ls -l /etc/localtime
# umask 077
# /usr/sbin/tzsetup
# ls -l /etc/localtime

>Fix:
	

--- tzsetup.c	Sun May  2 08:18:53 1999
+++ /tmp/tzsetup.c	Tue Aug  3 06:46:58 1999
@@ -499,6 +499,7 @@
 
 	if (reallydoit) {
 		if (copymode) {
+			mode_t old_mask;
 			fd1 = open(filename, O_RDONLY, 0);
 			if (fd1 < 0) {
 				asprintf(&msg, "Could not open %s: %s",
@@ -509,9 +510,11 @@
 			}
 
 			unlink(_PATH_LOCALTIME);
+			old_mask = umask(022);
 			fd2 = open(_PATH_LOCALTIME, 
 				   O_CREAT | O_EXCL | O_WRONLY,
 				   0444);
+			umask(old_mask);
 			if (fd2 < 0) {
 				asprintf(&msg, "Could not open "
 					 _PATH_LOCALTIME ": %s", 

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