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Re: UPG and the default umask



On 05/16/2010 05:11 PM, Santiago Vila wrote:
> They have login shells in the sense that their shell field in /etc/passwd
> is /bin/sh, but if they do not really "login" to the system, then they
> do not read /etc/profile.
> 
> In either case, if we plan to set default umask in /etc/login.defs or
> using PAM, I will happily drop the umask setting from /etc/profile,
> as we don't need to have the required "logic" by duplicate.

Curious, if umask isn't specified explicitly, what is it? For UID 1-99,
what we're discussing here, what would happen for their umask value?
Will it be 0022? 0000? Something else?

Also, if the system users aren't processing a login shell, then why
isn't their default login shell /usr/bin/nologin or /bin/false? Should a
wishlist bug be submitted against this?

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