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| author | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2013-09-18 00:32:54 (GMT) |
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| committer | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2013-09-18 00:32:54 (GMT) |
| commit | 8270a2c209836c49fb2909c3af6117c46439b86e (patch) | |
| tree | 76f71c56f744f5aa050cf07b6f326029c6ce7097 /Doc | |
| parent | 945a251e4ab8b4ebbb77604a64fa9b53b725ec6c (diff) | |
| parent | 104aab956f6de4131cab800f742cc108f9f92edf (diff) | |
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Merge #14984: On POSIX, enforce permissions when reading default .netrc.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/netrc.rst b/Doc/library/netrc.rst index 3f38cbc..e085bce 100644 --- a/Doc/library/netrc.rst +++ b/Doc/library/netrc.rst @@ -22,6 +22,14 @@ the Unix :program:`ftp` program and other FTP clients. no argument is given, the file :file:`.netrc` in the user's home directory will be read. Parse errors will raise :exc:`NetrcParseError` with diagnostic information including the file name, line number, and terminating token. + If no argument is specified on a POSIX system, the presence of passwords in + the :file:`.netrc` file will raise a :exc:`NetrcParseError` if the file + ownership or permissions are insecure (owned by a user other than the user + running the process, or accessible for read or write by any other user). + This implements security behavior equivalent to that of ftp and other + programs that use :file:`.netrc`. + + .. versionchanged:: 3.2.6 Added the POSIX permission check. .. exception:: NetrcParseError |