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

[C. Gatzemeier]

Am Wednesday 05 October 2005 10:43 schrieb Tollef Fog Heen:
> | - (wishlist) provide an option like login(1)s USERGROUPS_ENAB for UPG
> | compliance.
>
> UPG?

User private groups.

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/ref-guide/s1-users-groups-private-groups.html
or shorter http://developer.skolelinux.no/arkitektur/arkitektur.html.en#AEN104
(third paragraph)


From /etc/login.defs:
# Enable setting of the umask group bits to be the same as owner bits
# (examples: 022 -> 002, 077 -> 007) for non-root users, if the uid is
# the same as gid, and username is the same as the primary group name.
#
# This also enables userdel to remove user groups if no members exist.
#
USERGROUPS_ENAB yes

Piotr did submitt a diff for /etc/profile that emulates the behaviour
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi/profile.diff?bug=248150;msg=15;att=1