On Thu 14 Sep 2006 01:52:43 NZST +1200, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> * umask ("hard coded value in /etc/profile vs. pam_umask.so", see also
> "man pam_umask")
SUSE forgot the pam_umask man page for 10.1...
> Questions
> - Remove value from /etc/profile and store in a config file:
> - Use /etc/login.defs not only for creation of home directory,
> but also for login
> - Use pam_umask.so or use .profile parser solution?
Parsing profiles looks messy to me. Also, it would need to work for tcsh
too, which might be questionable.
> - Should YaST2 allow/provide umask value per user or only global?
> User is able to set a value with chfn -m umask=XXX
Any user is free too chose whatever uamsk they want by setting it in
their shell's login script, therefore no point putting it into yast. A
global default for users might be handy - also for whether new users
should be in a "users" group or their own each.
What has been annoying me for almost a decade is that Linux (any distro
I bet) doesn't hack a umask of 077 for root. I hope there is no argument
over why that should be default. Stubbornly been there, nothing but
trouble that way so I gave it up.
Volker
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