Bug 5090

Summary:	proble with umask
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	mal
Component:	setup	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.0	CC:	rvokal
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Description mal 1999-09-12 18:13:14 UTC

Hi,
there is a problem with
/etc/profile
in setup-1.9.2-1 package.
Specifically, when
selecting what umask to set
002 or 022
it checkes for iser id and group id.
If a process has effective user id or effective group id
different a wrong pernission may be set.
(for example if a user does
su
root will get 002 umask)
A fix to this problem is to test effective UID and effective
GID, not UID and GID as it is now.
Vladislav

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 1999-12-08 21:13:59 UTC

Um, id already does that.

If you just invoke 'su', it's not a login shell, so
/etc/profile is never read, so the umask is inherited
from the parent process.