Bug 139087 – umask set to 0002

Bug 139087 - umask set to 0002

Summary:	umask set to 0002

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

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Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	initscripts (Show other bugs)
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Version:	3
Hardware:	All Linux

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Assigned To:	Bill Nottingham
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Reported:	2004-11-12 15:53 EST by Steven Van Impe
Modified:	2014-03-16 22:50 EDT (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Last Closed:	2004-11-12 16:07:43 EST
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Description Steven Van Impe 2004-11-12 15:53:59 EST

Why is this ?

At first I thought: hey, other users can write my files, but then I
noticed my user is in a separate group (username steven, uid 500,
groupname steven uid 500). Can anyone explain, since I've never seen
anything like this before and don't really see what is could be for ?

(Note: not sure I filed this for the right component, but I had to
take a guess).

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2004-11-12 16:07:43 EST

The default has always been one user per group. Google and the mailing
lists may be more helpful here.

Comment 2 Steven Van Impe 2004-11-12 16:24:24 EST

The only thing I could find so far was just 'red hat uses
one-user-groups by default', but I still don't understand why that is.
Doesn't this make the whole groups-thing useless ?

If there is an official explanation for this on the mailing lists
somewhere and someone has a direct link, that would be nice, since I'm
not too skilled at searching them (and this is the first time I've
ever used Red Hat of Fedora full-time).

Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2004-11-12 16:33:05 EST

http://www.redhat.com/archives/redhat-list/2002-March/msg01753.html

has some information/discussion.

Comment 4 Alex Butcher 2004-11-19 20:03:38 EST

Also <http://www.google.com/search?q=user%20private%20group>

Comment 5 Steven Van Impe 2004-11-20 03:46:06 EST

Thanks for all the info :)

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