[mythtv] .png files are mode -rw-rw-rw-

Dan Wilga mythtv-dev at dwilga-linux1.amherst.edu
Wed Aug 9 13:16:50 UTC 2006


At 1:54 PM -0400 8/8/06, Daniel Kristjansson wrote:
>On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 13:46 -0400, Preston Crow wrote:
>>  I've noticed that while the regular recordings are -rw-r--r--, the .png
>>  thumbnails are globally-writable.  Is this intentional?
>
>Yeah. Most people have problems with getting permissions set
>up correctly, so this was done so the frontend could update
>the thumbnails generated by the backend with the more messed
>up configurations.

IMHO, this is a security risk, and should be optional.
-- 
Dan Wilga                                                        "Ook."


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