[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#581413: The default umask in Debian should be changed to '0002' to be fully compliant with user private groups

[Aaron Toponce]

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 06:22:09AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> forcemerge 583971 581413
> tags 583958 + upstream
> quit
>
> Hi Aaron,
>
> 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'.
>
> Merging with a related bug.  Bug#583958 mentions a patch, in case you're
> interested in trying this out.
>
> Thanks for reporting.

I'll check it out. Thanks for the update.

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