On Thu, 13 May 2010, Aaron Toponce wrote: > I made a suggestion to the debian-devel mailing list to change the > default umask from '0022' to '0002' seeing as though Debian GNU/Linux is > using user private groups (UPG) [1]. > > A couple days later, after much discussion and at the request of one of > the developers, I reported bug 581413 [2]. It generated a bit more > discussion, especially how it would impact NIS/NIS+ implementations, and > how to make note of such in the release notes for Squeeze. > > I just now received an email that this bug has been fixed in the > base-files package, version 5.4 [3].
Well done! The groups in a UPG system aren't very useful even when configured for sharing without the default umask you proposed, so this will be nice. Jon -- Jon Jensen End Point Corporation http://www.endpoint.com/ /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
