Re: Fw: Security risk of vim swap files

[Christian Brabandt <cb () 256bit org>]

On Fr, 03 Nov 2017, Jakub Wilk wrote:

> In general, what vim does (copying mode bits) in not enough to ensure that
> the swapfile is readable only by the users who had access to the original
> file. It would have to copy also group ownership and ACLs.

I think patch https://github.com/vim/vim/releases/tag/v8.0.1263 fixes 
the group ownership problem.

Christian
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