From 396ca9a641429e59e09d3a3c28dc85623197797f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?B=C3=A9n=C3=A9dikt=20Tran?=
 <10796600+picnixz@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2025 12:49:27 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] gh-135823: improve error message in `netrc` security checks
 (#135827)

---
 Lib/netrc.py                                                  | 4 ++--
 .../Library/2025-06-22-22-03-06.gh-issue-135823.iDBg97.rst    | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2025-06-22-22-03-06.gh-issue-135823.iDBg97.rst

diff --git a/Lib/netrc.py b/Lib/netrc.py
index bd003e80a48..2f502c1d533 100644
--- a/Lib/netrc.py
+++ b/Lib/netrc.py
@@ -162,8 +162,8 @@ class netrc:
                 fowner = _getpwuid(prop.st_uid)
                 user = _getpwuid(current_user_id)
                 raise NetrcParseError(
-                    (f"~/.netrc file owner ({fowner}, {user}) does not match"
-                     " current user"))
+                    f"~/.netrc file owner ({fowner}) does not match"
+                    f" current user ({user})")
             if (prop.st_mode & (stat.S_IRWXG | stat.S_IRWXO)):
                 raise NetrcParseError(
                     "~/.netrc access too permissive: access"
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2025-06-22-22-03-06.gh-issue-135823.iDBg97.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2025-06-22-22-03-06.gh-issue-135823.iDBg97.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..5b9d89caae7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2025-06-22-22-03-06.gh-issue-135823.iDBg97.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+:mod:`netrc`: improve the error message when the security check for the
+ownership of the default configuration file ``~/.netrc`` fails. Patch by
+Bénédikt Tran.