Re: PATCH: Configurable file mode mask

Hi Michael,

On 3/12/18 3:28 AM, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 09, 2018 at 01:51:14PM -0500, David Steele wrote:
>> How about a GUC that enforces one mode or the other on startup? Default
>> would be 700. The GUC can be set automatically by initdb based on the
>> -g option. We had this GUC originally, but since the front-end tools
>> can't read it we abandoned it. Seems like it would be good as an
>> enforcing mechanism, though.
>
> Hm. OK. I can see the whole set of points about that. Please let me
> think a bit more about that bit. Do you think that there could be a
> pool of users willing to switch from one mode to another? Compared to
> your v1, we could indeed have a GUC which enforces a restriction to not
> allow group access, and enabled by default. As the commit fest is
> running and we don't have a clear picture yet, I am afraid that it may
> be better to move that to v12, and focus on getting patches 1 and 2
> committed. This will provide a good base for the next move.
>
> There are three places where things are still not correct:
>
> - if (chmod(location, S_IRWXU) != 0)
> + current_umask = umask(0);
> + umask(current_umask);
> +
> + if (chmod(location, PG_DIR_MODE_DEFAULT & ~current_umask) != 0)
> This is in tablespace.c.

I have moved this hunk to 03 and used only PG_DIR_MODE_DEFAULT instead.

> @@ -185,6 +186,9 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)
> exit(1);
> }
>
> + /* Set dir/file mode mask */
> + umask(PG_MODE_MASK_DEFAULT);
> +
> In pg_rewind and pg_resetwal, isn't that also a portion which is not
> necessary without the group access feature?

These seem like a good idea to me with or without patch 03. Some of our
front-end tools (initdb, pg_upgrade) were setting umask and others
weren't. I think it's more consistent (and safer) if they all do, at
least if they are writing into PGDATA.

> This is all I have basically for patch 2, which would be good for
> shipping.

Thanks!

I'll attach new patches in a reply to [1] once I have made the changes
Tom requested.

--
-David
david(at)pgmasters(dot)net

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/22928.1520953220%40sss.pgh.pa.us