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Re: default environment for scripts?



On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 10:37:31PM -0400, Norbert Veber wrote:
> 
> Its kind of strange that debian has taken the approach of giving each user
> their own group, but the umask is not set to 002 universaly.  Its given

because that should be decided by the admin.  not everyone uses the
usergroup thing.

> conflicting values in several places:
> /etc/init.d/rcS sets it to 022

all root owned processes/daemons should be umask 022

> /etc/profile sets it to 002

no it doesn't

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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