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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 20:39:50 +0300, Igor Vinokurov wrote:

> I have tried this way before asking :)

Your proof indicates that pw ignores the umask(2).  Unfortunately, I got
confused by what you said originally:

> > > Unfortunately, pw creates a user home directory with the umask
> > > which was for the one who has started pw.

Given that what you said originally isn't true, you're probably better
off teaching whatever script calls pw to chmod the directories
afterwards.

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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