Re: Xsession doesn't use umask setting from /etc/login.defs
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Steve Langasek wrote:
| On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 02:06:16AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
|> On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 12:06:36PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
|>> environment variables, at least, are trivial to accomplish
|>> using the pam_env module. Properly setting a umask would
|>> call for something else yet.
|
|> Would pam_umask.so be a worthwhile exercise for some
|> enterprising person?
|
| (after discussing on IRC) Considering we already have a
| pam_limits.so for ulimits, yes.
Good thinking. I looked at the source. It (pam_limits) already
(conditionally) support things like Linux system capabilities.
Should be able to handle support for umask as well, preferably
upstream. I have sent the authors (redhat staff) a query.
// Tomas
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Tomas Fasth <tomfa@debian.org>
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