Bug 454 – Documentation for umask option slightly misleading

Bug 454 - Documentation for umask option slightly misleading


Summary:	Documentation for umask option slightly misleading

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Product:	Sudo
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Documentation
Version:	1.7.2
Hardware:	PC Linux

Importance:	low low
Assigned To:	Todd C. Miller

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Reported:	2010-12-11 13:58 MST by Reuben Thomas
Modified:	2010-12-21 10:24 MST (History)
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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.