From: Brandon S. Allbery (bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org)
Date: 04/13/93 

From: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
Subject: Re: the umask of root in SLS should be 022 ??
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1993 21:38:01 GMT

In article <1993Apr13.141146.10590@ccds3.ntu.edu.tw> dhliu@solar.csie.ntu.edu.tw (Der-Hua Liu) writes:
>I cannot understand why root's umask (profile) in SLS is set to 066.
>It will cause many troubles for a beginner.
>I strongly recommand the umask of SLS be set to 022.

It does rather more than that: I did part of the install without checking the
umask... I'm *still* finding things that should be accessible by anyone but
are in fact only readable by root :-(

++Brandon 

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