Re: rc scripts, umask and 2.4 kernels
>>>>> "Edward" == Edward Betts <edward@debian.org> writes:
Edward> Jason Thomas <jason@topic.com.au> wrote:
>> is this what your looking for.
>>
>> 2.4.5-ac6 o Force initial umask to be sane for broken (Andrew
>> Tridgell) init programs
Edward> Does that imply that our init is broken? Should we fix it?
Bug already submitted: #96561
As a workaround, put the following in /etc/initscript (make it
executable):
umask 022
eval exec "$4"
You might still end up with world-writable files: this doesn't work
for processes started directly by the kernel (mostly affects kmod
stuff).
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