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Hi Santiago, Aaron Toponce wrote: > To summarize: Debian uses user private groups (UPG) by default. This > places each user on the system in their own default, private group, that > no one else is, or should be, a member of. However, the default umask > value for Debian is '0022'. For what it’s worth, since this would not affect already-installed systems, changing the default umask to 002 seems like a safe and reasonable choice to me. Regards, Jonathan [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/05/msg00252.html [2] http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch12.en.html#s12.1.13 [3] http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/1994/03/msg00105.html [4] http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/1994/03/threads.html [5] http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/Deployment_Guide-en-US/s1-users-groups-private-groups.html * https://security.ias.edu/how-and-why-user-private-groups-unix * http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/09/using_user_private_groups.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

