600 certainly does help. Can you build a tar and chmod at the same time? I realize we're splitting hairs here. Luke Davis writes: > On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Janina Sajka wrote: > > >Frankly, building the .tar.bz2 file in /tmp might be considered > >insecure, as anyone might get at it there. > > Even if it is chmoded to 0600?