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From: pearce@oddjob.UChicago.EDU (Eric C. Pearce)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Mode of autosave files
Message-ID: <15179@oddjob.UChicago.EDU>
Date: 25 Jan 89 15:42:50 GMT
Organization: U of Chicago - Astronomy & Astrophysics
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Emacs 18.52 (running under Sun OS 3.5) sets the mode of the autosave
files to the value derived from umask upon entry to emacs.  Thus, if
you are editing a file which is non publically readable, and your
umask is set to a typical Unix value, your file, say "foo", is visible
to everyone in the form of its autosave file #foo#.

I would call this a bug and a security problem.  Backfiles
automatically receive the same mode as the original file.  Autosave
files should too.

Does anyone know how this problem can be fixed?