From owner-freebsd-security Sun May 5 10:09:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-security Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA27221 for security-outgoing; Sun, 5 May 1996 10:09:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from teamos2.org (teamos2.org [205.233.74.98]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA27216 for ; Sun, 5 May 1996 10:09:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (james@localhost) by teamos2.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA17636; Sun, 5 May 1996 13:09:25 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 5 May 1996 13:09:24 -0400 (EDT) From: James FitzGibbon To: Jaroslaw Bazydlo cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dot.cshrc and weird umask value In-Reply-To: <199605051045.MAA16372@cergowa.waw.pl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-security@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 5 May 1996, Jaroslaw Bazydlo wrote: > This is in /usr/share/skel/dot.cshrc. I know that everyone can set proper > value of umask but some not experienced users do not know about it. And even > experienced administrators belive that the distribution skeleton files are > good enough to copy then into user directory. Is there a reason for this ???? If you read the manpage for "adduser", you'll notice that the default method of creating users is to give each one of them their own group, instead of lumping them into "users" "staff" "guests", etc. Under this scheme, a umask of 2 is safe. If you change this default, It's expected that you would also change the default in /usr/share/skel. -- j. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | James FitzGibbon james@teamos2.org | | TeamOS/2 Online admin Voice/Fax : 416 410-0100 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------