On Sun, 3 Jan 1999, Vadim Vygonets wrote:
> 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.
RedHat is a little bit different with their group management. Every user
is in his own group, so 002 and 022 are essentially the same. There isn't
a "users" group like BSDI has (well, not by default).
Pete.
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