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jfalken opened this issue Feb 23, 2015 · 0 comments
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Python history file (.pythonhist) should not be world readable #489

jfalken opened this issue Feb 23, 2015 · 0 comments

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jfalken commented Feb 23, 2015

The python history file (~./pythonhist by default), is created with world readable permissions (644).

(venv)chris:~/ $ ls -l ~/.pythonhist
-rw-r--r--  1 chris  staff  46 Feb 23 11:14 /Users/chris/.pythonhist

This can allow other users on the system to read bpython history, which may include passwords / API keys etc.

I believe the permissions should be 600 upon file creation.
sebastinas added a commit that referenced this issue Feb 23, 2015
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Set mod of history file to 0600 (fixes #489)
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Signed-off-by: Sebastian Ramacher <sebastian+dev@ramacher.at>
(cherry picked from commit d4d9616)
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