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Frank Schmitt <usereplyto@Frank-Schmitt.net> writes:

> Henrik Enberg <henrik+news@enberg.org> writes:
>
>> Might be a good idea to tell the user to set proper read permissions
>> (chmod 600 ~/.authinfo) for the file if he's on a multi-user machine.
>> The same might go for ~/.gnus if  there's passwords in it.
>
> Can we tell Emacs to set the right permissions while writing the file?
> Something like M-x write-with-permissions RET 600 RET? If there's a
> function which does this, please yell.

Not that I know of.  I think Emacs uses the umask setting on systems
that support it (*nixes).