Issue with group of decrypted file

[David McDonald]

Dear all,

Thank you.

Adrian is absolutely correct.

My error entirely.

I did discover and correct it yesterday, but it has taken some time for the
e-mail to come through (to the list).

Again many thanks to those who looked into this issue.

Regards,

Dave McDonald

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder 
> [mailto:avbidder at fortytwo.ch]
> Sent: Monday, 2 September 2002 10:05 pm
> To: 'gnupg-devel at gnupg.org'
> Subject: Re: Issue with group of decrypted file
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2002-08-30 at 05:12, David McDonald wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Is anyone else seeing this?
> > 
> > When I decrypt a file, the decrypted file's group is always 
> "root". I am not
> > running gpg as root, but as a normal user (though gpg is 
> setuid root to
> > allow it to use secure memory).
> 
> Blind guess: gnupg is installed setuid *and* setgid root, but it does
> only drop the uid privilege, not the group privilege (since 
> it does only
> *use* the ui privilege).
> 
> $ ls -l `which gpg`
> -rwsr-xr-x    1 root     root       596296 May 11 16:13 /usr/bin/gpg
> 
> I'd bet for you it shows '-rwsr-sr-x'. The obvious fix would be
> $ chmod g-s `which gpg`
> 
> (and as this is posted to -devel: would it make sense to try 
> to drop the
> group privilege to stop this installation error having any impact?)
> 
> cheers
> -- vbi
> 
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