Re: [BUGS] BUG #14586: Permissions of recovery.conf are different inplain and tar-format

On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 5:00 PM,  <markus@braeunig.biz> wrote:
> The option "--write-recovery-conf" of pg_basebackup creates a valid
> recovery.conf but misses to apply secure file permissions when the default
> format (plain) is used.
>
> If you tar the result (-F t), the recovery.conf inside the base.tar has the
> permissions 0600.
> In plain format the umask of the actual user is applied and the permissions
> are e.g. 0644.
>
> Because plain passwords are possible in this file, I would suggest to unify
> this behavior and change the permissions to 0600 in both cases.

It does not matter much. Backup folder created by pg_basebackup has
0700 as umask.
-- 
Michael


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