Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 04:53:55PM -0400, Dan Christensen wrote:
> > I read that certain kernel versions don't set the umask for init
> > correctly (2.4.6 is one of them, I think). Does anyone know if
> > a Debian system is susceptible to this problem, and if so, which
> > files may have been created world-writable?
>
> solution: switch back to 2.2 kernels or upgrade to 2.4.7 which finally
> fixes this and sets the default umask back to 022.
You can also set the umask used by init to spawn processes in
/etc/initscript. See initscript(5).
-sami.
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