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Author SHA1 Message Date
Duncan Overbruck
085d04c3dd
add new HOME_MODE login.defs(5) option
This option can be used to set a separate mode for useradd(8) and
newusers(8) to create the home directories with.
If this option is not set, the current behavior of using UMASK
or the default umask is preserved.

There are many distributions that set UMASK to 077 by default just
to create home directories not readable by others and use things like
/etc/profile, bashrc or sudo configuration files to set a less
restrictive
umask. This has always resulted in bug reports because it is hard
to follow as users tend to change files like bashrc and are not about
setting the umask to counteract the umask set in /etc/login.defs.

A recent change in sudo has also resulted in many bug reports about
this. sudo now tries to respect the umask set by pam modules and on
systems where pam does not set a umask, the login.defs UMASK value is
used.
2020-01-12 16:18:32 +01:00
Serge Hallyn
93f1f35123 Revert "add new HOME_MODE login.defs(5) option"
Missing file

This reverts commit a847899b52.
2020-01-12 07:56:19 -06:00
Duncan Overbruck
a847899b52
add new HOME_MODE login.defs(5) option
This option can be used to set a separate mode for useradd(8) and
newusers(8) to create the home directories with.
If this option is not set, the current behavior of using UMASK
or the default umask is preserved.

There are many distributions that set UMASK to 077 by default just
to create home directories not readable by others and use things like
/etc/profile, bashrc or sudo configuration files to set a less
restrictive
umask. This has always resulted in bug reports because it is hard
to follow as users tend to change files like bashrc and are not about
setting the umask to counteract the umask set in /etc/login.defs.

A recent change in sudo has also resulted in many bug reports about
this. sudo now tries to respect the umask set by pam modules and on
systems where pam does not set a umask, the login.defs UMASK value is
used.
2020-01-11 22:27:39 +01:00
nekral-guest
4f8310dfde * man/newusers.8.xml, man/useradd.8.xml, man/groupadd.8.xml,
man/login.defs.d/UMASK.xml, man/login.defs.d/CREATE_HOME.xml,
	man/login.defs.d/LOGIN_RETRIES.xml: Fix typos: choosen, overriden,
	bahavior.
2010-04-04 23:17:11 +00:00
nekral-guest
cfce9890fb * etc/login.defs: Updated description of UMASK to indicate its
usage by pam_umask.
	* man/login.defs.d/UMASK.xml: Likewise.
2010-03-27 20:11:21 +00:00
nekral-guest
de60b7b2de * man/login.defs.d/UMASK.xml: Indicate how UMASK is used and
limitations.
2009-01-19 09:51:00 +00:00
nekral-guest
4b2f537795 * man/*.xml, man/login.defs.d/*.xml: Added copyright and licence
header.
2008-10-11 11:44:43 +00:00
nekral-guest
b75fe4940b Put each variable description in an external entities. This will permit to
reference them in the various utils manpages.
2007-11-26 22:11:23 +00:00