Hey Guys: It's very possible that I'm misunderstanding something here, but I have a question. In the Bash Shell Startup Files section, where we use the umask script, there is this note:
Setting the umask value is important for security. Here the default group write permissions are turned off for system users and when the user name and group name *are not* the same. However, if I'm reading the script correctly, this actually happens when the user and group name *are* the same and it's an id above 99: if [ "$(id -gn)" = "$(id -un)" -a $EUID -gt 99 ] ; then umask 002 Also, just to report, (perhaps this is something new with Bash 3.1), useradd -D on my system here also shows this line not mentioned in BLFS: CREATE_MAIL_SPOOL=no -- JH -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
