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Bug#767448: No way to override settings from /usr/share/initramfs-tools/conf-hooks.d/*



Package: initramfs-tools

There is no way for user to override settings from /usr/share/initramfs-tools/conf-hooks.d.

For example, dropbear package in file /usr/.../conf-hooks.d/dropbear sets UMASK variable to 0077. User cannot override this with his own setting in /etc.

The only way to do that is to edit /usr/.../conf-hooks.d/dropbear file directly and change UMASK. However, such change will be of course overwritten on a next update of dropbear package.

In my opinion, user-provided settings from /etc/* should have priority over package-provided settings form /usr/*.


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