Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] storage: use 0711 as the default perms for dirs

> Kinda surprised this didn't generate some immediate discussion... I > would also think that if you had a desire to change defaults you'd also > have a libvirt.spec.in adjustment... Actually no it doesn't - the spec file is already marking /var/lib/libvirt/images as 0711.

> Still 0755 or umask(022) seem to be fairly prevalent setting and having > the <mode> for the XML to be able to override a default certainly gives > credence to arguments in either direction whether or not to change the > defaults. > > It's been a long while since I considered system/directory/file security > things, but I have this faint recollection of some strange issue when > not having world or group "executable" as a default. The fact that RPM spec ships with 0711 show that it works ok. So I think this change is reasonable.