Re: [Pan-users] Re: ANN: Pan 0.121 "Dortmunder"

[Charles Kerr]

Robert Marshall wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Jan 2007, Charles Kerr wrote:
>
> > > > Still, plain text storage of the password in anything but a user-only
> > > > readable file isn't good.  Please file a bug on this, then post the
> > > > link or bug number here and I'll second it.
> > > Yes of course it was servers.xml, here's a pointer to the filed bug
> > >
> > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_activity.cgi?id=401087
> > There's a patch available for this bug at that link.
> > I'd appreciate a second pair of eyes to read it and/or give it a spin.
>
> I've rebuilt (went ok) and reinstalled and after moving ~/.pan2 out of the
> way and starting pan and adding a server I get the following permissions
> after pan exits 
>
>   -rw-r--r--    1 robert robert    7877 Jan 27 21:15 accels.txt
>   drwxr-xr-x    2 robert robert    4096 Jan 27 21:15 article-cache
>   -rw-------    1 robert robert      40 Jan 27 21:15 group-preferences.xml
>   drwxr-xr-x    2 robert robert    4096 Jan 27 21:15 groups
>   -rw-r--r--    1 robert robert 2441655 Jan 27 21:14 newsgroups.dsc
>   -rw-r--r--    1 robert robert     100 Jan 27 21:15 newsgroups.xov
>   -rw-r--r--    1 robert robert  106059 Jan 27 21:14 newsgroups.ynm
>   -rw-------    1 robert robert     248 Jan 27 21:15 posting.xml
>   -rw-r--r--    1 robert robert    3547 Jan 27 21:15 preferences.xml
>   -rw-r--r--    1 robert robert     389 Jan 27 21:13 servers.xml
>   -rw-r--r--    1 robert robert     194 Jan 27 21:15 tasks.nzb
>
> So permissions on servers.xml aren't getting set correctly, though the
> permissions have changed on some files

That's strange.  Here's the result I get after renaming my real .pan2
directory and running with the patch as a first-time user, adding
a server, downloading group names, and exiting:

  8 drwx------ 63 charles charles   4096 Jan 28 19:36 ..
  4 -rw-------  1 charles charles    367 Jan 28 19:37 servers.xml
 68 -rw-------  1 charles charles  62667 Jan 28 19:37 newsgroups.ynm
140 -rw-------  1 charles charles 138954 Jan 28 19:37 newsgroups.dsc
  4 drwxr-xr-x  2 charles charles   4096 Jan 28 19:37 article-cache
  4 -rw-------  1 charles charles    194 Jan 28 19:37 tasks.nzb
  8 -rw-r--r--  1 charles charles   7877 Jan 28 19:38 accels.txt
  4 -rw-------  1 charles charles   3546 Jan 28 19:38 preferences.xml
  4 -rw-------  1 charles charles    248 Jan 28 19:38 posting.xml
  4 -rw-------  1 charles charles    116 Jan 28 19:38 newsgroups.xov
  4 drwxr-xr-x  2 charles charles   4096 Jan 28 19:38 groups
  4 -rw-------  1 charles charles  40 Jan 28 19:38 group-preferences.xml
  4 drwxr-xr-x  4 charles charles   4096 Jan 28 19:38 .

Charles