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

[Alexander Gattin]

On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 10:37:25PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Alexander Gattin <arg@online.com.ua> [2005.06.18.2229 +0200]:
> > Then, I run login:
> ... as I said in the bug report: it works *only* through login...

Thus, here:
> [new login, after changing /etc/profile and /etc/login.defs as shown]
> madduck@seamus:~$ egrep -i '00(07|22)' /etc/profile ~/.bash_profile
> +/etc/login.defs
> /etc/profile:#umask 0007
> /etc/login.defs:UMASK   0007
> madduck@seamus:~$ umask
> 0022
you have just used `su`/`su -`?

> > This is the actual reason why login.defs should be obsoleted
> > sometime in favor of pam_umask or similar.
> 
> Absolutely.

Yes, but while login.defs can't catch all entries of a
user to system (like through cron/at/ssh etc.) which
shellrc can catch, it _can_ still catch entries of user
with a non-shell (pppd) or with a shell which don't set
umask (tcsh in Debian by default, AFAIS).

Thus currently UMASK in login.defs _has_ some use.
That's why I think it's not a right time yet to remove
it from there.

> You were making the assumption that I have no clue
> what I am talking about.

You just were not completely clear, at least I didn't
understand some your points.

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