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Re: umask - default user settings?



On 17/07/2024 22:40, Greg Wooledge wrote:
hobbit:/etc/pam.d$ dpkg -S /etc/pam.d/common-session
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /etc/pam.d/common-session

Where does that file come from, then?

This file contains the following:

# As of pam 1.0.1-6, this file is managed by pam-auth-update by default.

The tool has a brief man page. Files in pam.d need update when packages with pam modules are installed or removed. It seems similar to some other config file only a part of it is managed by a tool.

Taking into account a number of bugs, perhaps it is not really bad that recipes how to change umask are not easily available. Documentation should be extensive enough to describe possible pitfalls.


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