# .gitconfig permissions

1 messages from 2009-01-30 to 2009-01-30. Participants: Andrey Borzenkov.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/17463

## Andrey Borzenkov, 2009-01-30 17:41

Subject: .gitconfig permissions
Message-ID: <200901302042.05856.arvidjaar@mail.ru>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/200901302042.05856.arvidjaar%40mail.ru

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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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