Master secrets file permissions

[cnighswonger]

What should the master secrets file perms be exactly?

In order to resolve this:

root@slave:/etc/smokeping/config.d# /usr/sbin/smokeping --master-url=https://master.nowhere.com/smokeping.cgi --cache-dir=/var/smokeping/ --shared-secret=/etc/smokeping/slave_secret
WARNING: Opening secrets file /etc/smokeping/master_secrets: Permission denied

ERROR: we did not get config from the master. Maybe we are not configured as a slave for any of the targets on the master ?
root@slave:/etc/smokeping/config.d# 

I had to set the permissions thus:

root@master:/etc/smokeping# getfacl ./master_secrets
# file: master_secrets
# owner: smokeping
# group: root
user::rw-
user:www-data:r--
group::r--
mask::r--
other::---

root@master:/etc/smokeping# 

[oetiker]

yes this is a good aproach ...