I made a suggestion to the debian-devel mailing list to change the default umask from '0022' to '0002' seeing as though Debian GNU/Linux is using user private groups (UPG) [1].
A couple days later, after much discussion and at the request of one of the developers, I reported bug 581413 [2]. It generated a bit more discussion, especially how it would impact NIS/NIS+ implementations, and how to make note of such in the release notes for Squeeze. I just now received an email that this bug has been fixed in the base-files package, version 5.4 [3]. There are a couple news-worthy items to take note: 1) It will be in Squeeze. 2) It will likely be implemented into Ubuntu and family. This is very good news. Just thought I'd share for those using Debian/Ubuntu. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/05/msg00252.html [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=581413 [3] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=581434#25 -- . O . O . O . . O O . . . O . . . O . O O O . O . O O . . O O O O . O . . O O O O . O O O
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