Re: The story behind UPG and umask.
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 11:35:34AM +0200, Wolodja Wentland wrote:
> On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 23:43 +0100, Stephen Gran wrote:
> > This one time, at band camp, Roger Leigh said:
> > > How will adduser cope with group addition; does it skip UIDs until
> > > it finds an unused unique UID/GID pair?
>
> > That certainly is the only approach that makes sense - it has the
> > benefit of simplicity, if not elegance.
>
> Agreed, but why not make the decision to use UPG explicit by setting
> "UPG = True" in a suitable configuration file in addition to each of the
> discussed heuristics?
Or, just set umask to a fixed value.
Cheers,
harry
Reply to: