[Pkg-shadow-commits] r272 - trunk/debian

[Christian Perrier]

Author: bubulle
Date: 2005-06-19 14:04:45 +0000 (Sun, 19 Jun 2005)
New Revision: 272

Modified:
   trunk/debian/login.defs
Log:
Some rewrite


Modified: trunk/debian/login.defs
===================================================================
--- trunk/debian/login.defs	2005-06-19 12:40:04 UTC (rev 271)
+++ trunk/debian/login.defs	2005-06-19 14:04:45 UTC (rev 272)
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@
 # The ULIMIT is used only if the system supports it.
 # (now it works with setrlimit too; ulimit is in 512-byte units)
 # 
-# UMASK usage is discouraged because it catches very limited class of user
+# UMASK usage is discouraged because it catches only some classes of user
 # entries to system, in fact only those made through login(1), while setting
 # umask in shell rc file will catch also logins through su, cron, ssh etc.
 #
@@ -176,9 +176,10 @@
 # non-shell executables in place of login shell, like /usr/sbin/pppd for "ppp"
 # user and alike.
 #
-# Therefore we recommend using pam_umask (Debian package libpam-umask) as the
-# solution which catches all these cases on PAM-enabled system, which Debian
-# hopefully is. Another reason is confusion created by having umask set
+# Therefore the use of pam_umask is recommended (Debian package libpam-umask)
+# as the solution which catches all these cases on PAM-enabled systems.
+# 
+# This avoids the confusion created by having the umask set
 # in two different places -- in login.defs and shell rc files (i.e.
 # /etc/profile).
 #