[Pkg-shadow-devel] Re: summary preparation for technical comittee: setting the umask

[Santiago Vila]

On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, Christian Perrier wrote:

> The last part should then be change to:
> 
> 
> # 022 is the "historical" value in Debian for UMASK when it was used
> # in releases up to sarge included
> # 002 is the recommended value as this is ow the default value when
> # using pam_umask
> #UMASK		002

Please don't do that. In fact, I'm not willing to be part of a "solution"
which includes setting default umask to 002 as its final step.

As I've explained several times, if we change the default umask to 002,
a simple "scp -p" from a Debian system to a system where everybody is
in the "users" group will get unexpected, undesired and likely harmful
results.