umask help

[Nick Guenther]

On 8/25/06, George Goodman <georgegoodman at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all, I have now read a few books and am well on my way, thanks for
> all the help before.
>
> On my daily insecurity report I am getting:
>
> Checking root sh paths, umask values:
> /etc/profile /root/.profile
> Root umask is group writable
> Root umask is other writable
>
> I have spent a lot of time trying to discover what is wrong.
> prevoiusly I tried changing the umask from 022 to 0022 to see if that
> would sort things out, but no.
>
> Checking root sh paths, umask values:
> /etc/profile /root/.profile
> Root umask is group writable
> Root umask is other writable
>
> ======
> /root/.profile diffs (-OLD  +NEW)
> ======
> --- /var/backups/root_.profile.current  Tue Aug 22 23:13:17 2006
> +++ /root/.profile      Wed Aug 23 04:01:52 2006
> @@ -6,4 +6,4 @@
>  export EDITOR=nano
>

I thought I had an answer but I don't think I do. However, I really
must protest here: do NOT use nano. if you require a non-vi editor (I
do, haven't wrapped my head around it yet) use mg. It comes with the
base system and is much nicer. Nano has *menus* for crying out loud.

-Nick