[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#739981: [PATCH 3/4] Update documentation of UMASK: Explain that USERGROUPS_ENAB will modify this default for UPGs. (Closes: #583971)

Micah Anderson micah at riseup.net
Wed Feb 26 04:52:12 UTC 2014


---
 debian/changelog  | 3 +++
 debian/login.defs | 5 +++++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 79cdfc3..ebf1e9c 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ shadow (1:4.2-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * added debian/patches/userns to enable use of subuids, plus some bugfix 
     patches on top of them, patches from Eric Biederman, pulled from
     Ubuntu. Closes: #739981
+  * Allow LXC devices (lxc/console, lxc/tty[1234]) in securetty.linux
+  * Update documentation of UMASK: Explain that USERGROUPS_ENAB will modify
+    this default for UPGs. (Closes: #583971)
 
  -- Christian Perrier <bubulle at debian.org>  Sat, 27 Jul 2013 20:07:18 +0200
 
diff --git a/debian/login.defs b/debian/login.defs
index 968c657..aeb8585 100644
--- a/debian/login.defs
+++ b/debian/login.defs
@@ -139,6 +139,11 @@ TTYPERM		0600
 # There is no One True Answer here : each sysadmin must make up his/her
 # mind.
 #
+# If USERGROUPS_ENAB is set to "yes", that will modify this UMASK default value
+# for private user groups, i. e. the uid is the same as gid, and username is
+# the same as the primary group name: for these, the user permissions will be
+# used as group permissions, e. g. 022 will become 002.
+#
 # Prefix these values with "0" to get octal, "0x" to get hexadecimal.
 #
 ERASECHAR	0177
-- 
1.9.0



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