Philipp Kern <tr...@philkern.de> writes:
> On 2010-05-13, Lucas Nussbaum <lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net> wrote:
>> On 13/05/10 at 09:34 +0000, Philipp Kern wrote:

>>> Doesn't that lead to "great fun" if you activate NIS or similar means
>>> to sync unix users and groups on such systems, if they aren't set up
>>> to use UPG too?

>> How would that result in a problem?

> User files writeable by others by default because, as I said if they
> aren't set up to use UPG, they might share a "users" group?

I'm sure that I've gotten prompted by debconf somewhere, by something,
about whether I want to use UPG, although I can't remember what package
that is.  But if we're already asking the question, we should be able to
make the umask value conditional on that same question.  Then it's just a
matter of ensuring that the question is clear enough about when you would
not want to enable this.

-- 
Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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