On Thursday 13 May 2010 11:43:47 am Aaron Toponce wrote: > 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].
Very cool. Don't tell them that Red Hat was the first to implement this in
their distribution. ;-)
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