Quoting martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Package: login > Version: 1:4.0.3-31sarge5 > Severity: wishlist > > Since any login session these days will invoke a shell, there is no > point in having login.defs set the umask -- the shell will override > it anyway. Thus, so that people do not have to decide between > login.defs and profile when trying to set an umask globally, > I suggest login.defs removes the setting.
This comes from a discussion in debian-devel. In that discussion, the existence of the pam_umask module was also mentioned. Hence, I suggest that, when commenting the UMASK setting in the default login.defs file, we add the above comments along with a pointer to pam_umask and maybe the relevant Debian package. Other shadow maintainers, comments? I tend to agree with Martin comments....
