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.gitconfig permissions

From
ABAndrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>
Date
Jan 30, 2009, 17:41 UTC
Message-ID
<200901302042.05856.arvidjaar@mail.ru>

I was setting StGIT options to send mail; I need SMTP authentication so I'd like to set password to avoid typing it every time. After setting options I checked and ~/.gitconfig was created with 664 permissions. Given it may contain sensitive options, would not 600 default be better?

Thank you!
-andrey
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  1. Andrey BorzenkovJan 30, 2009

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