Do 'chmod' on directory 'backups' to reduce access

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Tycho Emacs Config Kit

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Do 'chmod' on directory 'backups' to reduce access #3

Closed DrChr closed 4 years ago

DrChr commented 4 years ago

Hi,

Perhaps the directory backups/ should not be accessible by everyone?

drwxrwxr-x   2 chr chr   4096 aug 29 07:17 backups/

Rationale: The directory will contain files that you maybe don't want every user to be able to see.

tychoish commented 4 years ago

Ah I didn't notice that! As far as I know, this directory gets created by emacs itself (and this functionality is part of emacs.) While it's easy enough to change the permissions of the directory, I believe the backup files themselves inherit the permissions of the files that they mirror, so while I can make the directory 700, I can't (and wouldn't want to) change the permissions of the files within the directory.

I have a solution that appears to work, so I've pushed that up!

Cheers!