For years, Red Hat Linux / Fedora systems have had a umask of 0002 for regular users as part of the "user private group" scheme [*]. Basically the idea is that you can set a directory group-sticky and use it as a common work area for a group of users.
A change a couple of years ago seems to have partially changed this - the code in /etc/profile was removed with the idea that it should be controlled by pam_umask / login.defs instead.
However, the corresponding code in /etc/bashrc was left .This means that for a *login* shell (VT, ssh session, etc.) the umask is 0022 but for an interactive *non-login* shell (e.g., gnome-terminal with default settings) the umask stayed 0002.
I'm not sure how much the change from 0002 to 0022 was thought through - that idea first appears in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1722387#c4 with Tomas Mraz saying: I do not think that the default umask should be 002 for regular users." - I would have expected a short change proposal, honestly.
It seems like we need to do one of two things:
- Go back to the old behavior, maybe by using the usergroups option to pam_umask and removing the code from /etc/bashrc
- Or just go fully to 0022 by removing the code from /etc/bashrc.
What do people think? If the current situation has lasted for several years, it clearly isn't *that* much of a concern to most people :-)
- Owen
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