[pca] pca buglet?

[Jeff Wieland]

You can use the --xrefdir= option to have it put the xref file
somewhere else, or the --xrefown option to set it to be writable
by the current user only.  I'm not certain why your vulnerability
scanner would care about what's in /var/tmp on a Solaris box...

Jeff Earickson wrote:
> Martin,
>
> My version of pca: 20110329-01.  I've noticed that when pca downloads
> patchdiag.xref to /var/tmp,
> the permissions end up as chmod 666.  Our vulnerability scanner
> complains about this as a world-writable file.
> Any idea how its permissions are set?  Is this something that be fixed in pca?
>
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