Re: make ~/.face world-readable (low-hanging-fruit) (Was Re: livecd hacking)

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On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 12:10 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> One thing we probably want on the desktop live cd, compared to mainline
> Fedora, is making sure that the user's home directory are
> world-executable, e.g. like this
[snip]
> Changing the mode on newly created home directories can, I believe, be
> achieved by rewriting /etc/login.defs such that UMASK is set to 066
> instead of 077 (I haven't tested this though). Probably worth adding
> some sed invocation in the %post of the live cd kickstart file. Jeremy,
> Colin?

>From a quick test, it looks like it works.  And 
  sed -i 's/UMASK *077/UMASK 066/g' /etc/login.defs
seems like a workable sed invocation.  If no one sees a reason not to,
I'll get this added later (hoping to get Colin's abstraction bits in
first)

Jeremy

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