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

[C. Gatzemeier]

Am Wednesday 05 October 2005 11:21 schrieb Santiago Vila:
> On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, Christian Perrier wrote:

> > #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.

Would you file a wish for scp -p to warn the user when primary group names are 
different?

An umask of 002 has been active before PAM due to USERGROUPS_ENAB yes, and is 
probably active on many multi user systems. What could be a solution other 
than leaving this problem open for others?

Regards,
Christian