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authorZac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>2011-01-19 11:02:30 -0800
committerZac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>2011-01-19 11:12:31 -0800
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dispatch-conf: restrict default archive-dir permsv2.1.9.34
Also, add warnings about rcs and ci behavior in dispatch-conf.conf and dispatch-conf.1. This will fix bug #315603.
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diff --git a/cnf/dispatch-conf.conf b/cnf/dispatch-conf.conf
index 33ad156e6..b51b61ae1 100644
--- a/cnf/dispatch-conf.conf
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@@ -6,6 +6,14 @@
archive-dir=/etc/config-archive
# Use rcs for storing files in the archive directory?
+# WARNING: When configured to use rcs, read and execute permissions of
+# archived files may be inherited from the first check in of a working
+# file, as documented in the ci(1) man page. This means that even if
+# the permissions of the working file have since changed, the older
+# permissions of the first check in may be inherited. As mentioned in
+# the ci(1) man page, users can control access to RCS files by setting
+# the permissions of the directory containing the files (see
+# archive-dir above).
# (yes or no)
use-rcs=no