summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/debian/login.defs
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorMicah Anderson <micah@riseup.net>2014-02-25 22:47:24 -0500
committerMicah Anderson <micah@riseup.net>2014-02-25 23:11:41 -0500
commit7573a1f68487de0ae60c06922da4c37c8e5604cf (patch)
tree7be02142144496a467671caa73a57297c760fd27 /debian/login.defs
parentd89d44af82b3e99286f33733fddaed9332f395ee (diff)
downloadshadow-7573a1f68487de0ae60c06922da4c37c8e5604cf.tar.gz
Update documentation of UMASK: Explain that USERGROUPS_ENAB will modify this default for UPGs. (Closes: #583971)
Diffstat (limited to 'debian/login.defs')
-rw-r--r--debian/login.defs5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/debian/login.defs b/debian/login.defs
index 968c6578..aeb85853 100644
--- a/debian/login.defs
+++ b/debian/login.defs
@@ -139,6 +139,11 @@ TTYPERM 0600
# There is no One True Answer here : each sysadmin must make up his/her
# mind.
#
+# If USERGROUPS_ENAB is set to "yes", that will modify this UMASK default value
+# for private user groups, i. e. the uid is the same as gid, and username is
+# the same as the primary group name: for these, the user permissions will be
+# used as group permissions, e. g. 022 will become 002.
+#
# Prefix these values with "0" to get octal, "0x" to get hexadecimal.
#
ERASECHAR 0177