From 9ebfa320b724b6e745d768a003ef7086f091565e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthias Andree Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:46:09 +0000 Subject: Documentation and program output now /consistently/ claim that the rcfile must not have more than 0700 (u=rwx,g=,o=) permissions, but fetchmail will still silently accept additional g=x permissions for compatibility with previous 6.2.X and 6.3.X versions. Inconsistency (program 0710, manpage 0600) reported by Petr Uzel. svn path=/branches/BRANCH_6-3/; revision=5211 --- fetchmail.man | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'fetchmail.man') diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index 1665bcc4..20b413d2 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -794,7 +794,7 @@ Specify a non-default name for the run control file. The pathname argument must be either "-" (a single dash, meaning to read the configuration from standard input) or a filename. Unless the \-\-version option is also on, a named file -argument must have permissions no more open than 0600 (u=rw,g=,o=) or +argument must have permissions no more open than 0700 (u=rwx,g=,o=) or else be /dev/null. .TP .B \-i | \-\-idfile @@ -1467,7 +1467,7 @@ When there is a conflict between the command-line arguments and the arguments in this file, the command-line arguments take precedence. .PP To protect the security of your passwords, -your \fI~/.fetchmailrc\fR may not normally have more than 0600 (u=rw,g=,o=) permissions; +your \fI~/.fetchmailrc\fR may not normally have more than 0700 (u=rwx,g=,o=) permissions; .I fetchmail will complain and exit otherwise (this check is suppressed when \-\-version is on). -- cgit v1.2.3