[Haskell-cafe] GHC bindist permissions (Was: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.4.1-rc1 is now available)

[Brandon Allbery]

On my current machine, yes. On various machines in the past, no; but
anything I wasn't comfortable with others seeing didn't touch those
machines, because if nothing else (other) sysadmins would see them. So
022 was an acceptable umask.


On Mon, Aug 8, 2022 at 10:02 AM Henning Thielemann
<lemming at henning-thielemann.de> wrote:
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> On Mon, 8 Aug 2022, Brandon Allbery wrote:
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> > I think umask addresses a different issue than "unprivileged user". In
> > any case, yes, 077 is fairly uncommon; if you have that much need for
> > privacy then perhaps you should not be using the system in the first
> > place.
>
> Are you the only user on the machine?



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