Bug 454

Summary:	Documentation for umask option slightly misleading
Product:	Sudo	Reporter:	Reuben Thomas <rrt>
Component:	Documentation	Assignee:	Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	low
Priority:	low
Version:	1.7.2
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux

Description Reuben Thomas 2010-12-11 13:58:18 MST

sudoers(5) says:

"The actual umask that is used will be the union of the user's umask and 0022."

This is not quite true: 0022 is merely the default value. Hence, better would be:

"The actual umask that is used will be the union of the user's umask and the value of the umask option, which defaults to 0022."

Comment 1 Todd C. Miller 2010-12-21 10:24:10 MST

I've made that change to the documentation, thanks.