Joey Hess writes ("new to debian; some questions"): ... > Does debian use the "user groups" system that redhat uses, that makes each > user be in a group containing only themselves, so the umask can be set to > 002? I see in /etc/group that each user does get placed in their own > group. But I see in /etc/profile that the umask is set to 022.. Can I > change that to 002 safely?
Yes, you can, but adduser will edit it when it installs people's .profile's anyway. Ian.