[Pkg-shadow-devel] Documenting shadow package

[Nicolas François]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 07:12:50PM +0900, vuhung16plus at gmail.com wrote:
> The following text comes with debian,
> pkg-shadow/debian/trunk/debian/login.defs,
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> # 022 is the "historical" value in Debian for UMASK when it was used
> # 027, or even 077, could be considered better for privacy
> # There is no One True Answer here : each sysadmin must make up his/her
> # mind.
> #UMASK		022
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> I proposal adding this explanation to pkg-shadow's default login.defs so that
> every distributions will benefit from your package( You are working on
> an upstream package!!)

I changed it to a more anonymized version:

# Default initial "umask" value for non-PAM enabled systems.
# UMASK is also used by useradd and newusers to set the mode of new home
# directories.
# 022 is the default value, but 027, or even 077, could be considered
# better for privacy. There is no One True Answer here: each sysadmin
# must make up her mind.
UMASK		022

Best Regards,
-- 
Nekral