tags 643560 confirmed
thanks

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 03:27:47PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Personal groups are the default on Debian.  The purpose of personal
> groups is to allow users to run with a umask of 002 so that they can
> sensibly access shared filespace areas whose access is controlled by
> group.

> This only works if the default umask is actually 002.  This should
> probably now be achieved by enabling the pam_umask module with the
> "usergroups" option in some appropriate config file.

Yes, this is planned for wheezy.  I consider upstreaming of the patch in bug
#583958 (and then pulling it into Debian) a prerequisite.

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