[pca] pca buglet?

[Rajiv Gunja]

+ check umask settings for the ID which is downloading the xref.

-GGR
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Rajiv G Gunja
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On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 16:25, Jeff Wieland <wieland at purdue.edu> wrote:

> 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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