[OATH-Toolkit-help] issue (bug?) in update_usersfile

[Felix Salfelder]

Hi there.

update_usersfile does not only update the usersfile but also overwrites
owner/permissions. this is bad (i think in general). in particular this
is a show stopper for the private usersfile implementation (which is not
complete yet).

the attached patch works around this in my case, but may fail. for
example chown requires some privileges...

i don't know how to seamlessly update a file in place, maybe the proper
solution is to not replace that file at all.

cheers
felix

0001-restore-mode-ownership-after-rewriting-usersfile-wor.patch
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