On 2011-09-27 09:36 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> tags 643560 confirmed
> thanks
>
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 03:27:47PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
>> Personal groups are the default on Debian. The purpose of personal
>> groups is to allow users to run with a umask of 002 so that they can
>> sensibly access shared filespace areas whose access is controlled by
>> group.
>
>> This only works if the default umask is actually 002. This should
>> probably now be achieved by enabling the pam_umask module with the
>> "usergroups" option in some appropriate config file.
>
> Yes, this is planned for wheezy. I consider upstreaming of the patch in bug
> #583958 (and then pulling it into Debian) a prerequisite.
In pam 1.5.3-1, both #583958 and #711104 have been fixed, and I found
out (much to my surprise, actually) that the umask after login had
changed from 022 to 002. So it seems this bug should be closed, too.
Cheers,
Sven
