Re: [patch] document USERGROUPS_ENAB in login.defs(5)

Tomasz Kłoczko <[email protected]> Sat, 8 Apr 2006 16:12:29 +0200 (CEST)
Newsgroups gmane.linux.pld.shadow.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, Mike Frysinger wrote:

> seems documentation on this feature is lacking

+           If <emphasis remap='I'>yes</emphasis>, then when a user logs in
+           and their uid != 0, uid == gid, and their username is the same as
+           their initial login group, their umask is set to 002 instead of
+           022.

About UMASK.
Now above isn't true.
If PAM is enabled used UMASK for login/su session is managed on PAM level.
For case non-PAM and any other where UMASK is neccessary shadow uses
UMASK defined in lib/getdef.h (022).

kloczek
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