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author | Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@ubuntu.com> | 2019-01-03 16:26:05 -0800 |
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committer | Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@ubuntu.com> | 2019-01-03 17:26:38 -0800 |
commit | 9c52e721044e7501c3d4567b36d222dc7326224a (patch) | |
tree | 9011790770130c60a712a6f125ad50d60e07cc74 /modules/pam_umask/README | |
parent | 9727ff2a3fa0e94a42b34a579027bacf4146d571 (diff) | |
parent | 186ff16e8d12ff15d518000c17f115ccab5275a4 (diff) |
New upstream version 1.0.1
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diff --git a/modules/pam_umask/README b/modules/pam_umask/README new file mode 100644 index 00000000..69003ec3 --- /dev/null +++ b/modules/pam_umask/README @@ -0,0 +1,58 @@ +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. + +silent + + Don't print informative messages. + +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>. + |