On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 02:34:30PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > But for now, current policy says UIDs over 30000 are "reserved", which means > they might or might not be "ordinary user accounts". > > Those who do not use "adduser" because "they know that they are doing" > will surely be able to change /etc/profile if the default one is not > suitable for them, as it happens with every default value in the system. > > If we don't follow policy closely here, we can't claim that the umask > change does only affect "ordinary user accounts" (which is what I > think the release notes for squeeze will say).
Wouldn't the other way round mean that we cannot claim that the umask changes will affect *all* "ordinary user account"? Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100520142149.ga22...@nighthawk.chemicalconnection.dyndns.org