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

[martin f krafft]

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also sprach Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org> [2005.06.17.0751 +0200]:
> This comes from a discussion in debian-devel. In that discussion, the
> existence of the pam_umask module was also mentioned.
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> 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

Even without pam_umask, the login.defs setting would only affect
console logins, unless bash was used, which overrides them. zsh, for
instance, does not specify a umask, so it gets 022 by default, and
login.defs' value on the console. With the existence of all these
corner cases, I would say: remove, and add a comment to refer people
to /etc/profile (or equivalent) and libpam-umask.

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