Re: a few q's

["Josip Rodin" <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr>]

On 19.12.1998., at 11:26, martin@internet-treff.uni-koeln.de wrote: 

>JR> I don't know the official Debian umask mode, but I've
>JR> noticed the 002 somewhere in /etc when I installed
>JR> first time. Although programs that create files should
>JR> set perms themselves, IMHO that should be 022.
>JR> (http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/29/29338.html)
>
>What is wrong with umask 002 as default? As default, every user has
>its own group, so this should be OK, no?

The 022 setting is more 'user-friendly' for systems that
have groups with multiple users.

In any case (default umask changed or not), this bug report
should be closed.


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