svn commit: r349976 - head

[Renato Botelho]

On 13/07/19 13:48, Ian Lepore wrote:
> 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.  

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-- 
Renato Botelho

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