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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Igor Vinokurov <igor@rtsnet.ru>
Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: pw && umask 
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On Sat, 19 Feb 2000 20:01:42 +0300, Igor Vinokurov wrote:

> We use pw for automatic registration of new users in the system.
> For security reasons we use 072 as umask for all users. Unfortunately,
> pw creates a user home directory with the umask which was for the one
> who has started pw.
> 
> How to solve this problem?

How about setting the umask(2) before running pw(8) by using the umask(1)
builtin command of the shell?  Both the csh(1) and sh(1) shells supplied
with FreeBSD provide a umask(1) builtin command.

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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