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

[Santiago Vila]

On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, C. Gatzemeier wrote:

> Am Wednesday 05 October 2005 11:21 schrieb Santiago Vila:
> > 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?

What problem? I believed the "problem" was the unability to change the
umask by changing a single configuration file. Once we make possible that,
the problem is solved. Those users who want an umask of 002 will
be able to change it easily, but as there is nothing in a debian system
*requiring* such umask, there should not be compelling reasons to
change the default.