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Bug 73850

Summary:	neat writes wep key to world-readable file
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Mike McLean <mikem>
Component:	redhat-config-network	Assignee:	Harald Hoyer <harald>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	8.0	CC:	chris.ricker, notting, rderooy, wtogami
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
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Bug Blocks:	79579, 81720

Description Mike McLean 2002-09-12 07:18:18 UTC

* initscripts-6.95-1
* redhat-config-network-1.1.20-1

If you configure a wireless interface with neat and set an encryption key, that
key is stored in the world readable file
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth?. This doesn't exactly live up to
"secure by default".  

iwconfig goes to the trouble of not letting mortal users see the encryption key,
but that effort is wasted since the user can just read it out of the network config.

neat should chmod 600 /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth? if it contains
wep keys.  Alternately, initscripts handling of wireless devices could be
restructured to hide this info without locking down the whole file (perhaps a
file ifshadow.eth?).

Comment 1 Mike McLean 2003-01-02 20:26:50 UTC

*** Bug 80369 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Harald Hoyer 2003-02-04 16:11:32 UTC

should be fixed in cvs