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Re: UPG and the default umask



On 2010-05-13, Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> wrote:
> If no stronger objections against a change from 022 to 002 is raised, would you
> agree changing base-files so that /etc/profile uses 002 on new systems?

Doesn't that lead to "great fun" if you activate NIS or similar means
to sync unix users and groups on such systems, if they aren't set up to
use UPG too?  So that would need a big fat warning in the release notes
and somehow I fear bad PR.  :P

Kind regards,
Philipp Kern


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