Quoth Pete Kruckenberg on Sat, Jan 02, 1999:
> Turns on on BSDI, the default shell configuration is a umask of 022 (the
> same as the default maskmode for the aliasfile driver in Exim), where on
> RedHat, the default umask is 002.
Told ya about DeadRat! I think it's a bad idea to have the
default umask set to anything less restrictive than 022.
> I just added a "maskmode 002" to the
> system_aliases: configuration, changed the file's mode, and things work
> great now (and won' break in the future).
Changed the file mode to 644, I hope? Because making the mode of
/etc/aliases 664 is not a good idea, either.
Vadik.
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