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Re: Xsession doesn't use umask setting from /etc/login.defs



* Tomas Fasth 

| Branden Robinson wrote:
| | Would pam_umask.so be a worthwhile exercise for some enterprising
| | person?
| 
| May I suggest pam_logindefs.so?

No, that's a bad idea for a variety of reasons, for instance that we
already have pam_limits and as pam modules often are security-critical
which means we should have small modules instead of one, larger module
doing more.

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Tollef Fog Heen                                                        ,''`.
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