Re: Xsession doesn't use umask setting from /etc/login.defs
On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 01:19:59AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 12:14:58AM +0200, Tomas Fasth wrote:
> > Branden Robinson wrote:
> > >/etc/login.defs explicitly indicates that it is "Configuration
> > >control definitions for the login package", and many of its
> > >parameters are inapplicable to display managers, or already
> > >implemented in parallel (e.g., how long do wait after a failed
> > >login before displaying the prompt/greeter again?).
> >
> > I believe that /etc/login.defs _is_ the right place to define the
> > default umask property.
>
> It feels wrong to me to make display managers selectively parse the
> configuration file of a different piece of software for configuration
> parameters that might be of interest to them.
This was exactly the opinion I came to when people asked (as they have
on a number of occasions) for OpenSSH to honour the ENV_SUPATH and
ENV_PATH settings in /etc/login.defs.
> BUGS
> Much of the functionality that used to be provided by the shadow
> password suite is now handled by PAM. Thus, /etc/login.defs is no
> longer used by programs such as login(1), passwd(1) and su(1).
> Please refer to the corresponding PAM configuration files instead.
>
> Maybe that's the direction we should head?
I don't think everything in /etc/login.defs is provided by PAM yet,
although I'm willing to be corrected on this. I agree that's the right
place for programs like sshd and Xsession to get this information.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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