From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Setting default HOME_MODE in /etc/login.defs
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2024 21:01:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5d9776b3cea5c060ba73491a771f9736f255100d.camel@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGJwT=845Re0yGrwrdDKMHZt+=cFmLEcbpv5WBDatKt-adehyg@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, 2024-02-10 at 17:57 +0100, Daniel Simionato wrote:
> Hello,
> I'd like to start a discussion regarding setting HOME_MODE by default in
> the /etc/login.defs file (owned by sys-apps/shadow package).
>
> Upstream keeps HOME_MODE commented:
> https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow/blob/3e59e9613ec40c51c19c7bb5c28468e33a4529d5/etc/login.defs#L207
>
> HOME_MODE affects only useradd and newuser commands: if HOME_MODE is set,
> they will use the specified permission when creating a user home directory,
> otherwise the default UMASK will be used.
> Since the default umask is 022, keeping HOME_MODE unset will result in home
> readable home direct
umask 022 is also egregious, changing it to 027 would kill two birds.
But in lieu of that, yes.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-02-11 2:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-02-10 16:57 [gentoo-dev] RFC: Setting default HOME_MODE in /etc/login.defs Daniel Simionato
2024-02-10 23:52 ` John Helmert III
2024-02-11 1:08 ` Alex Boag-Munroe
2024-02-11 2:01 ` Michael Orlitzky [this message]
2024-02-11 10:06 ` Sam James
2024-02-11 13:08 ` Michał Górny
2024-02-11 2:12 ` Eli Schwartz
2024-02-11 2:20 ` Alex Boag-Munroe
2024-02-11 8:00 ` Ulrich Mueller
2024-02-11 9:33 ` James Le Cuirot
2024-02-11 10:10 ` Sam James
2024-02-11 10:53 ` Eray Aslan
2024-02-11 11:16 ` Daniel Simionato
[not found] ` <0ca8c68f-11e3-4a68-a857-bfd040e6b084@iodoru.org>
2024-02-13 20:01 ` Daniel Simionato
2024-02-11 13:37 ` Arsen Arsenović
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