Bug#314539: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#314539: please remove UMASK from login.defs

[Christian Perrier]

Quoting martin f krafft (madduck@debian.org):
> Package: login
> Version: 1:4.0.3-31sarge5
> Severity: wishlist
>=20
> Since any login session these days will invoke a shell, there is no
> point in having login.defs set the umask -- the shell will override
> it anyway. Thus, so that people do not have to decide between
> login.defs and profile when trying to set an umask globally,
> I suggest login.defs removes the setting.


This comes from a discussion in debian-devel. In that discussion, the
existence of the pam_umask module was also mentioned.

Hence, I suggest that, when commenting the UMASK setting in the default
login.defs file, we add the above comments along with a pointer to
pam_umask and maybe the relevant Debian package.=A0

Other shadow maintainers, comments?

I tend to agree with Martin comments....