mostly reorganizing and cleanup

[distro-setup] / filesystem / etc / profile.d / environment.sh

diff --git a/filesystem/etc/profile.d/environment.sh b/filesystem/etc/profile.d/environment.sh
index 95dce05679534846aad55c42eff9b722136822d5..4c5794f4fc918219cc18131e9e5e22f3f0f14f0e 100644 (file)
--- a/filesystem/etc/profile.d/environment.sh
+++ b/filesystem/etc/profile.d/environment.sh
@@ -55,16 +55,20 @@ if [ -f /etc/fedora-release ]; then
     fi
 fi
 
+# background:
 # ubuntu has 002 for non-system users, debian has 022.  002 makes groups
-# be rw instead of r. One security concern is where some unixes put
-# every user in a same group, so if you copy files there with exact
-# perms, that is probably not what you want. I don't use a system like
-# that. I don't care much either way, but the ubuntu one seems a bit
-# more user friendly, and copying files between them is a annoying with
-# different umasks. However, it also makes it so if you create a file as
-# a regular user then move it to become a system file, it's got slightly
-# wrong permissions, and sometimes thing break. So, this outweighs the
-# other things, stick with 022 umask always.
+# be rw instead of r.
+#
+# ubuntu is more user friendly when using multiple users. However,
+# it also makes it so if you create a file as a regular user then move
+# it to become a system file, it's got slightly wrong permissions, and
+# sometimes thing break. Also, copying files between ubuntu and debian
+# makes things inconsistent. So stick with 022 umask always.
+#
+# One security concern is where some unixes put every user in a same
+# group, so if you copy files there with exact perms, that is probably
+# not what you want. I don't use a system like that, so I don't
+# care.
 umask 022
 # this is how we could test for non-system user