Philipp Kern <[email protected]> writes: > On 2010-05-13, Lucas Nussbaum <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 13/05/10 at 09:34 +0000, Philipp Kern wrote:
>>> Doesn't that lead to "great fun" if you activate NIS or similar means >>> to sync unix users and groups on such systems, if they aren't set up >>> to use UPG too? >> How would that result in a problem? > User files writeable by others by default because, as I said if they > aren't set up to use UPG, they might share a "users" group? I'm sure that I've gotten prompted by debconf somewhere, by something, about whether I want to use UPG, although I can't remember what package that is. But if we're already asking the question, we should be able to make the umask value conditional on that same question. Then it's just a matter of ensuring that the question is clear enough about when you would not want to enable this. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
