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diff --git a/doc/daily_work.inc b/doc/daily_work.inc index a37aac4c3..ca3ea6903 100644 --- a/doc/daily_work.inc +++ b/doc/daily_work.inc @@ -1372,6 +1372,14 @@ a different ``umask`` than ``0022`` at build-time this may fail badly at run-time with strange erroneous behaviour (for example some daemons with regular user permissions cannot access their own configuration files). +If the current ``umask`` is more permissive than the required ``umask``, +then ptxdist will change it as required. For example, a ``umask`` of +``0002`` is quite common when the primary group of a user has the same name +as the user. + +For security reasons, PTXdist will not set a more permissive ``umask`` +than the current one. + Read Only Filesystem -------------------- |