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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: conf/7908: wrong perms on objformat after upgrade
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> > the permissions on /etc/objformat.  I installed it as root with an
> > umask of 077 and the file got the permissions 0600.
> 
> Don't Do That, Then. I learned the hard way never to set root's umask
> to anything stricter than 022. Unless you always remember to set the
> umask right at the right time, anything you install (including, but
> not limited to, /etc/objformat) is installed wrong.

Nonsense.  Everything installed properly (using install(1)) is installed
right.

Bruce

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