[Bug 139551] index files from 774 to 700 for security improvement

[Jose Da Silva]

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139551





--- Comment #4 from Jose Da Silva <Digital JoesCat com>  2008-09-23 11:03:05 ---
Yes, I see
.kde/share/kmail has rwx------ folder rights in Kmail 1.9.9 under KDE3.5.9

In 3.3 it was worse, but in 3.5 various files are still created as rw-rw-r--

If Linux provides you tools to improve security, why not make use of them?  :-)

Let's say for example that today you have several shared plugins such as flash
animation for Firefox, Konqueror, or Opera ....
....could it be conceivable that in future that it may be possible to share
email data between clients...say Kmail if you do it by GUI, and some other mail
client such as "mail" if you do/read/parse/other by script.

Let's suppose that you keep your mail in a common location such as ~/.Mail and
put a link from ~/.kde/shared/apps/kmail/mail to ~/.Mail but ~/.Mail is
rwxr-xr-x

The above is a "what-if?" scenario, and allowing the file system to hold an
additional level of security by making your files rw------- is just an
additional precaution for unlikely "what-if?"s

Just a thought
Jose


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