[jira] [Commented] (DERBY-5363) Tighten default permissions of DB files with >= JDK6

["Rick Hillegas (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Rick Hillegas commented on DERBY-5363:
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This sounds reasonable to me. Might be useful to describe how this would affect legacy applications. Thanks.

> Tighten default permissions of DB files with >= JDK6
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: DERBY-5363
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-5363
>             Project: Derby
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Dag H. Wanvik
>
> Before Java 6, files created by Derby would have the default
> permissions of the operating system context. Under Unix, this would
> depend on the effective umask of the process that started the Java VM.
> In Java 6 and 7, there are methods available that allows tightening up this
> (File.setReadable, setWritable), making it less likely that somebody
> would accidentally run Derby with a too lenient default.
> I suggest we take advantage of this, and let Derby by default (in Java
> 6 and higher) limit the visibility to the OS user that starts the VM,
> e.g. on Unix this would be equivalent to running with umask 0077. More
> secure by default is good, I think.
> We could have a flag, e.g. "derby.storage.useDefaultFilePermissions"
> that when set to true, would give the old behavior.

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