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On my first try to use the netrc module I got back the error:
"~/.netrc access too permissive: access permissions must restrict access to only the owner"
I changed the file permissions and wrapped this up in try-except and went on to write some unit tests (using tempfile), assuming that the file mode checks would be performed on any netrc file I passed into the constructor (yes, I did not read the documentation sufficiently well).
Anyway, I believe that these security checks should be done for any netrc file (they contain sensitive information no matter where they are located on the file system). There was already a discussion on the topic
https://bugs.python.org/issue14984
where there was concern regarding backwards-compatibility and the idea to re-visit this issue "in the future". That was in 2013, so maybe this "future" is now? |
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2018-03-12 21:05:31 | akoeltringer | set | recipients:
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