[DOCS-10737] Docs for SERVER-22829: WiredTiger data files world-readable Created: 30/Aug/17  Updated: 29/Oct/23  Resolved: 17/Oct/17

Status: Closed
Project: Documentation
Component/s: None
Affects Version/s: None
Fix Version/s: 3.5.12

Type: Task Priority: Major - P3
Reporter: Kay Kim (Inactive) Assignee: Steve Renaker (Inactive)
Resolution: Fixed Votes: 0
Labels: None
Remaining Estimate: Not Specified
Time Spent: Not Specified
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Issue Links:
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documents SERVER-22829 WiredTiger data files world-readable Closed
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Days since reply: 6 years, 17 weeks, 1 day ago
Epic Link: DOCS: 3.6 Server

 Description   

Documentation Request Summary:

As of this change, new files created by MongoDB are not readable/writeable/executable by user or other, independently of how the user umask is set. The old behavior, where we respect the user umask, is available by setting the new setParameter 'honorSystemUmask' to true (it defaults to false).

Engineering Ticket Description:

The WiredTiger data files in the data directory are given permissions

 666 xor umask 

As rad as this number is, unless there is a pressing reason for more open permissions we should probably change it to 600 since that is what mmapv1/legacy mongo does.



 Comments   
Comment by Githook User [ 17/Oct/17 ]

Author:

{'email': 'steve.renaker@mongodb.com', 'name': 'Steve Renaker', 'username': 'steveren'}

Message: DOCS-10737: updated 3.6 release notes
Branch: master
https://github.com/mongodb/docs/commit/a032d3fac15de5fa32e489af92a3d8632c3c72b7

Comment by Githook User [ 17/Oct/17 ]

Author:

{'email': 'steve.renaker@mongodb.com', 'name': 'Steve Renaker', 'username': 'steveren'}

Message: DOCS-10737: server parameter honorSystemUmask
Branch: master
https://github.com/mongodb/docs/commit/a8c62dc488f6aff48807fec4c41c3a9003af87d7

Comment by Andrew Morrow (Inactive) [ 06/Oct/17 ]

steve.renaker - It is only honored at startup via the servers --setParameter syntax.

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