[PVE-User] More restrictive disk image permissions
Dietmar Maurer
dietmar at proxmox.com
Thu Jun 27 18:41:52 CEST 2013
> Proxmox stores KVM virtual disk images in /var/lib/vz/images/*/* with
> permissions 0644,root,root. It seems to me a security risk for the images to be
> world readable. In fact, the virtual machines can function just fine with
> permissions 0600.
>
> Are the default permissions configurable? Why is it not more secure by default?
> Is there anything wrong with 0600 that I haven't considered?
We need to test that. Please can you file a bug at bugzilla.proxmox.com?
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