On Tue, 1 Jun 2010, Philipp Kern wrote: > Hi, > > should #583967 be RC?
No, it should not. > If I see it correctly it will "only" affect new > installs because the /etc/profile file is not automatically updated. But > calling this unconditionally sounds wrong: > > | if [ "`id -u`" -ge 1000 ] && [ "`id -u`" -le 29999 ]; then > | umask 002 > | else > | umask 022 > | fi > > (Currently in testing.) It may be not suitable for your current installation, but it is suitable for a newly installed system as a *default*. As it happens with every default, it is not required to satisfy everybody, and the user is always free to change it. > As discussed on debian-devel we really, really want the additional sanity > checks pam_umask provides. So please tell me when there is a pam thing that replaces the current default /etc/profile and I will gladly remove the umask setting from it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

