How about transactional change of ownership.

[Jacek Bzdak]

When changing ownership put_file works like that:

1. Put the file in proper place
2. chmod it

Whis mostly is OK, but sometimes it may hurt --- for example when updating sudoers file, a catually had to execute following command: mv {} /etc/sudoers && chmod 440 /etc/sudoers && chown root:root /etc/sudoers, because any after mv and before chown sudo is essentially unusable --- because it says thay sudoers have bar permissions.

I could patch put, replace file and so on to have following logic:

1. Put the file in /tmp/
2. Chmod and chown tempfile
3. mv it to correct place.

This is better since file has correct permissions all along.

[Bernardo Heynemann]

+1

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 6:51 AM, Jacek Bzdak [e-mail]:

When changing ownership put_file works like that:

1. Put the file in proper place
2. chmod it

Whis mostly is OK, but sometimes it may hurt --- for example when updating
sudoers file, a catually had to execute following command: mv {}
/etc/sudoers && chmod 440 /etc/sudoers && chown root:root /etc/sudoers,
because any after mv and before chown sudo is essentially unusable ---
because it says thay sudoers have bar permissions.

I could patch put, replace file and so on to have following logic:

1. Put the file in /tmp/
2. Chmod and chown tempfile
3. mv it to correct place.

This is better since file has correct permissions all along.

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[Diogo Baeder]

+1

[Jacek Bzdak]

Will be done this way.