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.gitconfig permissions

Subject: .gitconfig permissions

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One message between Jan 30, 2009 and Jan 30, 2009.

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Andrey Borzenkov· Jan 30, 2009, 17:41 UTC · lore

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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