[PATCH] Allow RW access to wpa_supplicant config file

Johannes Berg johannes at sipsolutions.net
Fri Feb 25 03:39:46 EST 2011


On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 17:01 -0800, Dmitry Shmidt wrote:

> @@ -288,6 +290,11 @@ struct wpa_config * wpa_config_read(const char *name)
>  		return NULL;
>  	}
> 
> +	/* When creating the config file, give group read/write access
> +	 * to allow backup and restoring the file.
> +	 */
> +	chmod(name, S_IRUSR|S_IWUSR|S_IRGRP|S_IWGRP);

I think that'll probably have to be configurable in some way, maybe a
build config is sufficient? Otherwise it'll probably lead to unexpected
behaviour on some people's systems.

johannes



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