On Tuesday, Nov 06, 2001, Maxim Heijndijk wrote:
> I have encountered a permissiom problem after running 'msec custom'.
> It appends the lines:
>
> # Mandrake-Security : if you remove this comment, remove the next line too.
> if [[ ${UID} == 0 ]]; then umask 022; else umask 077; fi
>
> ...to /etc/profile.
> However, after /etc/profile, /etc/bashrc is run, which contains the lines:
>
> # by default, we want this to get set.
> # Even for non-interactive, non-login shells.
> if [ `id -gn` = `id -un` -a `id -u` -gt 99 ]; then
> umask 002
> else
> umask 022
> fi
>
> ...which makes the lines in /etc/profile redundant.
>
> Could this be fixed in the setup-package ? Or is it msec that should be fixed.
I agree... this has been there since 8.0. It's very annoying.
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Paul Cox <paul at coxcentral dot com>
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