commit 0acca27ac7270d05e23f046db5e14611a92c9da8
parent 86be3af75fc86852751df9cafc67483dc31c65ae
Author: Chris Allegretta <chrisa@asty.org>
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 03:10:10 +0000
2010-06-20 Chris Allegretta <chrisa@asty.org>
* New option allow_insecure_backup, allows the previous security
fixes for backup files to be overridden if you're really positive
you want to. Fixes Savannah bug 29732 by Brian Szymanski <skibrianski>.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.gnu.org/nano/trunk/nano@4508 35c25a1d-7b9e-4130-9fde-d3aeb78583b8
Diffstat:
6 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2010-06-20 Chris Allegretta <chrisa@asty.org>
+ * New rc file option allow_insecure_backup, allows the previous security
+ fixes for backup files to be overridden if you're really positive
+ you want to. Fixes Savannah bug 29732 by Brian Szymanski <skibrianski>.
+
2010-05-23 Chris Allegretta <chrisa@asty.org>
* files.c (write_file): Don't even try to chown() the backup
file unless we're root, since it's probably going to fail if
diff --git a/doc/man/nanorc.5 b/doc/man/nanorc.5
@@ -57,6 +57,11 @@ match \fI"\fP, \fI'\fP, \fI)\fP, \fI>\fP, \fI]\fP, and \fI}\fP.
The supported commands and arguments are:
.TP 3
+.B set/unset allow_insecure_backup
+When backing up files, allow the backup to succeed even if its permissions
+can't be (re)set due to special OS considerations. You should
+NOT enable this option unless you are sure you need it.
+.TP
.B set/unset autoindent
Use auto-indentation.
.TP
diff --git a/doc/syntax/nanorc.nanorc b/doc/syntax/nanorc.nanorc
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ syntax "nanorc" "\.?nanorc$"
## Possible errors and parameters
icolor brightwhite "^[[:space:]]*((un)?set|include|syntax|i?color).*$"
## Keywords
-icolor brightgreen "^[[:space:]]*(set|unset)[[:space:]]+(autoindent|backup|backupdir|backwards|boldtext|brackets|casesensitive|const|cut|fill|historylog|matchbrackets|morespace|mouse|multibuffer|noconvert|nofollow|nohelp|nonewlines|nowrap|operatingdir|preserve|punct)\>" "^[[:space:]]*(set|unset)[[:space:]]+(quickblank|quotestr|rebinddelete|rebindkeypad|regexp|smarthome|smooth|softwrap|speller|suspend|suspendenable|tabsize|tabstospaces|tempfile|undo|view|whitespace|wordbounds)\>"
+icolor brightgreen "^[[:space:]]*(set|unset)[[:space:]]+(allow_insecure_backup|autoindent|backup|backupdir|backwards|boldtext|brackets|casesensitive|const|cut|fill|historylog|matchbrackets|morespace|mouse|multibuffer|noconvert|nofollow|nohelp|nonewlines|nowrap|operatingdir|preserve|punct)\>" "^[[:space:]]*(set|unset)[[:space:]]+(quickblank|quotestr|rebinddelete|rebindkeypad|regexp|smarthome|smooth|softwrap|speller|suspend|suspendenable|tabsize|tabstospaces|tempfile|undo|view|whitespace|wordbounds)\>"
icolor green "^[[:space:]]*(set|unset|include|syntax|header)\>"
## Colors
icolor yellow "^[[:space:]]*i?color[[:space:]]*(bright)?(white|black|red|blue|green|yellow|magenta|cyan)?(,(white|black|red|blue|green|yellow|magenta|cyan))?\>"
diff --git a/src/files.c b/src/files.c
@@ -1615,7 +1615,8 @@ bool write_file(const char *name, FILE *f_open, bool tmp, append_type
/* We shouldn't worry about chown()ing something if we're not
root, since it's likely to fail! */
if (geteuid() == NANO_ROOT_UID && fchown(backup_fd,
- openfile->current_stat->st_uid, openfile->current_stat->st_gid) == -1 ) {
+ openfile->current_stat->st_uid, openfile->current_stat->st_gid) == -1
+ && !ISSET(INSECURE_BACKUP)) {
statusbar(_("Error writing backup file %s: %s"), backupname,
strerror(errno));
free(backupname);
@@ -1623,7 +1624,7 @@ bool write_file(const char *name, FILE *f_open, bool tmp, append_type
goto cleanup_and_exit;
}
- if (fchmod(backup_fd, openfile->current_stat->st_mode) == -1) {
+ if (fchmod(backup_fd, openfile->current_stat->st_mode) == -1 && !ISSET(INSECURE_BACKUP)) {
statusbar(_("Error writing backup file %s: %s"), backupname,
strerror(errno));
free(backupname);
diff --git a/src/nano.h b/src/nano.h
@@ -480,6 +480,7 @@ enum
REBIND_KEYPAD,
NO_CONVERT,
BACKUP_FILE,
+ INSECURE_BACKUP,
NO_COLOR_SYNTAX,
PRESERVE,
HISTORYLOG,
diff --git a/src/rcfile.c b/src/rcfile.c
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ static const rcoption rcopts[] = {
#ifndef NANO_TINY
{"autoindent", AUTOINDENT},
{"backup", BACKUP_FILE},
+ {"allow_insecure_backup", INSECURE_BACKUP},
{"backupdir", 0},
{"backwards", BACKWARDS_SEARCH},
{"casesensitive", CASE_SENSITIVE},
