Re: UPG and the default umask
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 01:04:22PM +0200, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote:
> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Harald Braumann <harry@unheit.net> wrote:
> > On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 11:48:19AM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> >
> >> Will be done in base-files 5.4.
> >
> > I think that this change was done prematurely. There is still the
> > issue of a Debian system running in a non-UPG environment. And so far
> > I haven't seen a resolution for this point in the discussion.
>
> I believe the pam umask module is the way to go according to
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/Linux-PAM-html/sag-pam_umask.html
>
> [opition] usergroups
>
> If the user is not root, and the user ID is equal to the group ID,
> and the username is the same as primary group name, the umask group
> bits are set to be the same as owner bits (examples: 022 -> 002, 077
> -> 007).
And it was said in this thread that UID == GID is not always true with
UPG. You only need to create a group for that to become false for users
you would create afterwards.
Mike
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