291544 - Investigate if EM permissions should be set to 0600/0700 not 0644/0755

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

EM code sets a lot of file permissions to 0644, we should see which ones make
sense to be more restricted (0600) ... same for 0700 instead of 0755

Comment 1

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

*** Bug 209418 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

If we do this we will have to do it after extraction since zipreader removes any existing file and permissions when you perform an extraction

http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/modules/libjar/nsJAR.cpp#228

Comment 3

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

I don't believe there is any reason to do this. If users want privacy over what extensions they have then they should be locking down access to their profile somehow.