Thought I forward this to -devel, just FYI. It seems kernels >=2.4.3 start up with umask set to 000 instead of 022.
|>If I have understood the man pages, it looks as though the simplest |>solution would be to use an initscript. | |Correct. I tested and implemented that solution today, and wonder why |none of the common distributions (I'm with debian potato, colleagues |checked SuSE and Slackware) do use an initscript. | |This /etc/initscript works for me: | | umask 022 | PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin | export PATH | eval exec "$4" | |To verify the umask change, and later verify the fix, put into /etc/inittab | | xx:2:wait:/bin/touch /tmp/testfile | |Follow by "init Q", then look at the permissions of /tmp/testfile. Dima
