On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 12:14:58AM +0200, Tomas Fasth wrote:
> Branden Robinson wrote:
> >/etc/login.defs explicitly indicates that it is "Configuration
> >control definitions for the login package", and many of its
> >parameters are inapplicable to display managers, or already
> >implemented in parallel (e.g., how long do wait after a failed
> >login before displaying the prompt/greeter again?).
>
> I believe that /etc/login.defs _is_ the right place to define the
> default umask property.
It feels wrong to me to make display managers selectively parse the
configuration file of a different piece of software for configuration
parameters that might be of interest to them.
$ man 5 login.defs
No mention of X Window System display managers there.
Huh, well...
BUGS
Much of the functionality that used to be provided by the shadow
password suite is now handled by PAM. Thus, /etc/login.defs is no
longer used by programs such as login(1), passwd(1) and su(1).
Please refer to the corresponding PAM configuration files instead.
Maybe that's the direction we should head?
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