[ANNOUNCEMENT] Linux-PAM 0.99.1.0 BETA release

Thorsten Kukuk kukuk at suse.de
Wed Sep 28 11:26:12 UTC 2005


On Wed, Sep 28, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:

> * Thorsten Kukuk 
> 
> | The umask setting itself has nothing to do with support in PAM
> | itself. Every piece of software supporting that needs a config file
> | from where it gets the value, and currently the value is there 
> | and the module honours that.
> 
> PAM tends to get its configuration from /etc/pam.d/* unless it's too
> complicated to express on one line. :-P

But umask setting is no configuration option for the module, but
a setting for a user. Don't mix that. And you can of course specify
the umask value there, too.

  Thorsten

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