Re: UPG and the default umask
Aaron Toponce <aaron.toponce@gmail.com> writes:
> Further discussion however shows that other than root, system users
> don't have login shells, and as such, won't process the /etc/profile
> file. Also, because root has its own UPG, there's really no need for the
> logic. My only question is then, why is their default shell /bin/sh, and
> not /bin/false or /usr/sbin/nologin if they indeed are not login shells?
Because the further discussion was wrong. System users have login shells
in Debian. (I consider this a very long-standing bug.)
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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