Package: nut-monitor Version: 2.7.2-1.1 Severity: normal After discovering how to save and use Favorites with NUT-Monitor (see #777680 for the steps I performed), I wanted to know how and where NUT-Monitor stored its configuration.
I found the configuration in ~/.nut-monitor/favorites.ini and was surprised to find both the file and the directory it is in were apparently created with my umask=0022 applied, (which is not an uncommon setting,) i.e. the directory ~/.nut-monitor was mode 755 and the file ~/.nut-monitor/favorites.ini was mode 644. Because this file may contain crypted passwords if authentication was enabled, permissions on the file should be more restrictive. I manually corrected this with: $ chmod 700 ~/.nut-monitor $ chmod 600 ~/.nut-monitor/favorites.ini Please ensure NUT-Monitor adequately protects the password from prying eyes, either restricting access to the directory, or the file, or both, as you see fit. Thanks, Ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
