Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 13:29:13 +0200 From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> To: "Francisco Reyes" <reyes01@ibm.net> Cc: "FreeBSd Chat list" <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Why no umask in dot-profile? Message-ID: <199608291129.NAA00775@campa.panke.de> In-Reply-To: <199608290233.CAA27097@pop01.ny.us.ibm.net> References: <199608290233.CAA27097@pop01.ny.us.ibm.net>
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Francisco Reyes writes:
>I was looking at the the "dot" which are used as the basis for the
>files which get copied when a new user is created and noticed that
>the "dot-profile" did not have umask. Isn't this an advisable
>security measure?
The default umask is 022. No risk.
/usr/include/sys/param.h:
#define CMASK 022 /* default file mask: S_IWGRP|S_IWOTH
*/
man 2 umask
The default mask value is S_IWGRP|S_IWOTH (022, write access for the own-
er only). Child processes inherit the mask of the calling process.
Wolfram
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