[Bug 379341] Re: remove/comment /etc/profile umask setting

[Steve Langasek]

** Changed in: base-files (Ubuntu)
       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

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Title:
  remove/comment /etc/profile umask setting

Status in “base-files” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: base-files

  Setting the umask in /etc/profile only works for some shells. It was
  introduced into debian as a workaround, when the switch from login to
  PAM broke the UMASK setting in /etc/login.defs.

  Since recently pam_umask is included in pam, and provides a central
  facility with user overrides to set a consistent umask again.

  In /etc/profile please comment:

  # umask 022
  # Setting a fixed umask in shell configuration files was only a workaround.
  # It is no longer needed and should not be done since the umask can be 
  # set consistently with PAM. (See man pam_umask.)

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