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Date:      Sun, 5 May 1996 13:09:24 -0400 (EDT)
From:      James FitzGibbon <james@teamos2.org>
To:        Jaroslaw Bazydlo <jarekb@pap.waw.pl>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: dot.cshrc and weird umask value
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.93.960505130811.17286A-100000@teamos2.org>
In-Reply-To: <199605051045.MAA16372@cergowa.waw.pl>

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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.

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