On Tue, 1 Jun 2010, Philipp Kern wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> should #583967 be RC?

No, it should not.

> If I see it correctly it will "only" affect new
> installs because the /etc/profile file is not automatically updated.  But
> calling this unconditionally sounds wrong:
> 
> | if [ "`id -u`" -ge 1000 ] && [ "`id -u`" -le 29999 ]; then
> |   umask 002
> | else
> |   umask 022
> | fi
> 
> (Currently in testing.)

It may be not suitable for your current installation, but it is
suitable for a newly installed system as a *default*. As it happens
with every default, it is not required to satisfy everybody, and the
user is always free to change it.

> As discussed on debian-devel we really, really want the additional sanity
> checks pam_umask provides.

So please tell me when there is a pam thing that replaces the current
default /etc/profile and I will gladly remove the umask setting from it.



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