Lunar ISO, security - umask change.

[Dennis Veatch]

On Tuesday 05 June 2007 07:12:36 pm Kok, Auke wrote:
> Zbigniew Luszpinski wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I think it would be more secure to change default umask from 022 to 077
> > for every normal user by default. It would be a matter of modifying umask
> > in ~/.bash_profile
>
> I'm not inclined to merge these things that easily, we made this choice a
> long time ago and I spent quite some time looking at other distro's and
> documentation before I picked what we currently have.
>
> Current Fedora still has 022, I assume RH too.
>
> Auke
> _______________________________________________

I can confirm RHEL 5 uses umask 22 in /etc/bashrc.

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Dennis
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