[11073] in bugtraq
Re: your mail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (hal)
Mon Jul 19 18:37:16 1999
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Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 06:46:16 -0400
Reply-To: hal <hcking@ACSSUN.PSTCC.CC.TN.US>
From: hal <hcking@ACSSUN.PSTCC.CC.TN.US>
X-To: sbr <sbr@DIRECT.CA>
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
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Just a tidbit: This message sent me running so I can tell you that vim ( that
does create an "backup" file ) creates its files with the same perms as the
file you are editing.
On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, sbr wrote:
> I recently started using a new editor called joe, with this editor there is
> a feature that if your existing session is terminated, it creates a DEADJOE
> in the directory. While editing my shadow file my connection was
> terminated, thus leaving the DEADJOE in my /etc directory that was world
> readable containing my entire shadow file. I think the problem is self
> explanitory. I have emailed the creator and there is no feature to disable
> this that I can find or mentioned in the email. My umask setting does not
> seem to affect the permissions of DEADJOE.
>
> The operating system is Debian Linux 2.1 kernel 2.2.10 i386.
>
> - Spencer.
>
hal hcking@acssun.pstcc.cc.tn.us
http://acssun.pstcc.cc.tn.us/~hcking
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