FW: Image Unique Identifier

Bert Freudenberg bert at impara.de
Thu Aug 24 11:49:12 UTC 2006


David T. Lewis schrieb:
> On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 11:38:51PM -0400, Ron Teitelbaum wrote:
>> Hi David,
>>
>> Thank you that is very helpful.  I was just looking at files because in my
>> reading there were a lot of references about storing encrypted information
>> in a file that has OS Access Control.  I didn't see a way to change the
>> security parameters of a file.  Do we have that somewhere, is it planned.  I
>> want to be able to set the access rights for the file to be the currently
>> logged in user only.
> 
> We do not have it, and it is not planned. File access control is very
> platform-specific, so it would be difficult to implement in a way that you
> could rely on for all platforms.

Supposing this is is running on *ix - wouldn't a umask call in the 
start-up script be sufficient for that?

- Bert -



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