On 06/19/17 04:24, stan wrote: > I recently became aware that the default umask for Fedora is 022 when > it caused problems for me that I had a different umask. This seems like > an anachronism, a relic of a kinder, gentler time, when the computing > atmosphere was more collegiate. Is it really appropriate that new > files be created for a user with permissions of rwxr-xr-x in today's > security atmosphere? > > I set my umask to 077, so that no one can access anything. > > I'm interested in other people's opinions, especially those arguing in > favor of continuing to have a umask of 022. Am I overlooking something? You haven't described your environment. Without that knowledge any advice on umask is questionable. Remember, umask isn't, and never was, intended to be a high security mechanism. -- Fedora Users List - The place to go to speculate endlessly
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