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author | Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@thkukuk.de> | 2006-05-30 07:48:36 +0000 |
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committer | Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@thkukuk.de> | 2006-05-30 07:48:36 +0000 |
commit | 9a611ad9d88dfe3950889277881aa2057c9429d3 (patch) | |
tree | 520b5bdab46399660c7127c9ebd370c072bbf714 /modules/pam_umask/README | |
parent | 7ae17137a9dc034d96fff82777330d6a44a82d00 (diff) |
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2006-05-30 Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@thkukuk.de>
* modules/pam_umask/Makefile.am: Include Make.xml.rules.
* modules/pam_umask/pam_umask.8.xml: New.
* modules/pam_umask/pam_umask.8: New, generated from xml file.
* modules/pam_umask/README.xml: New.
* modules/pam_umask/README: Regenerated from xml file.
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diff --git a/modules/pam_umask/README b/modules/pam_umask/README index 3fd4f7f0..2a4f2641 100644 --- a/modules/pam_umask/README +++ b/modules/pam_umask/README @@ -1,14 +1,54 @@ -This is the README for pam_umask --------------------------------- - -pam_umask sets the set the file mode creation mask of the current -environment. It tries to get the umask value from the following -files in the following priority: - -- umask= argument -- umask= entry of the users GECOS field -- pri= entry of the users GECOS field -- ulimit= entry of the users GECOS field -- UMASK= entry from /etc/default/login -- UMASK entry from /etc/login.defs +pam_umask — PAM module to set the file mode creation mask + +━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ + +DESCRIPTION + +pam_umask is a PAM module to set the file mode creation mask of the current +environment. The umask affects the default permissions assigned to newly +created files. + +The PAM module tries to get the umask value from the following places in the +following order: + + ● umask= argument + + ● umask= entry of the users GECOS field + + ● pri= entry of the users GECOS field + + ● ulimit= entry of the users GECOS field + + ● UMASK= entry from /etc/default/login + + ● UMASK entry from /etc/login.defs + +OPTIONS + +debug + + Print debug information. + +usergroups + + If the user is not root, and the user ID is equal to the group ID, and the + username is the same as primary group name, the umask group bits are set to + be the same as owner bits (examples: 022 -> 002, 077 -> 007). + +umask=mask + + Sets the calling process's file mode creation mask (umask) to mask & 0777. + The value is interpreted as Octal. + +EXAMPLES + +Add the following line to /etc/pam.d/login to set the user specific umask at +login: + + session optional pam_umask.so umask=0022 + + +AUTHOR + +pam_umask was written by Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@thkukuk.de>. |