Hi Hans, Quoting Hans (2020-01-07 14:44:55) > it is now a long time, since I needed to make a fresh install of > debian (see, how fine it is working!) > > Just a question: What is actual the default umask in debian? I > believe, it is 022, and people should change this to 027 (like the > manual says). You make that sound like a contradiction. Which manual are you referring to? > Is this still so? What makes you think that something has changed? I mean, if you above implied that it was wrong before, then I suppose you shold file it as a bugreport and then the closure of that would get you your answer, so that cannot be it, right? > If it is still 022 by default, shouldn't it be 027 > by default, just for better security? Security of what? Shouldn't it have networking disabled by default, just for better security? There are many options, and many securities, some contradicting each other: Seems the default is to secure some degree of collaboration across accounts. > Well, might be , that some application then could not read the > personal configuration in ~/user, but this would be rather seldom. I don't know. Sounds like you do. > Thanks for thinking of it and any answers. Thanks for being open also to "answers" in the form of counter-questions :-) - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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