Re: UPG and the default umask
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 02:55:20PM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I'd say if Debian's idea of UPG doesn't match pam's, we should either
> change the pam implementation or the implementation of Debian's UPG
> concept to match each other.
There is no such thing as Debian's idea of UPG. There is simply the fact
that when you create a user with UPG, it uses the first uid and the
first gid available. It can happen that they don't match, in the
scenario I gave above. This applies to any distro, afaik.
Mike
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