--- On Tue, 23/9/08, Shlomi Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The default Mandriva umask appears to be 0002 .
That surprised me, so I googled "default mandriva umask". All the references I found say the default umask is 0022 ... unless ... Mandriva offers a tool to control security settings. It's called "Msec": http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Msec http://is.gd/2Zzk Msec offers 7 security levels. Level 0 ("The user should not be allowed to own a computer") is very insecure (not even a password), and Level 6 comes with its own tinfoil hat. As it turns out, those different security levels correspond to different umasks, as detailed here: http://www.brunolinux.com/07-Security/Mandriva_Security_Settings.html http://is.gd/2Zzn The only levels which provide a default umask of 0002 are levels 0 and 1, both of which are *NOT* recommended, but if that's what you say your default is, I can only wonder how, exactly, you managed to get your system in that state. (In fact, distributions generally default to level 3, which has a default umask of 0022.) Of course, even as Eric pointed out, a umask of 0002 still masks the world writeable permissions, so I still don't see how you're getting there and if you've configured your system to give *you* a umask of 0022, then you still shouldn't be getting the warnings you're getting. I don't understand how this arose, but I'd be curious to find out how. Cheers, Ovid -- Buy the book - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlhks/ Tech blog - http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/ Twitter - http://twitter.com/OvidPerl Official Perl 6 Wiki - http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6
