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Re: UPG and the default umask



On 05/16/2010 12:39 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Because the further discussion was wrong.  System users have login shells
> in Debian.  (I consider this a very long-standing bug.)

Then the logic should be in play. System users don't necessarily have a
private group, so their umask should be 0022. If they are not intended
to be login accounts, then their default shell should be changed to
/usr/sbin/nologin or /bin/false.

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