various fixes and improvements

[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 bc816738355aba0f3a7a290ed853b106cbd6e2f3..6a1dff0d6c2d8500f2f0c2d6bcdd27e0b885027c 100644 (file)
--- a/filesystem/etc/profile.d/environment.sh
+++ b/filesystem/etc/profile.d/environment.sh
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ export EDITOR="emacsclient"
 # instead of some alternate editor logic
 export ALTERNATE_EDITOR=""
 
+export PITHOSFLY_SAVE_DIR=/a/pandora_rips4
 
 # makes subsequent syscalls to localtime use cached timezone,
 # so basically restart the comp if you change time zones,
@@ -55,13 +56,21 @@ 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 pita with
-# different umasks.
-if test "$(id -u)" -ge 1000; then
-    umask 002
-fi
+# be rw instead of r.
+#
+# ubuntu is more user friendly when using multiple users. However,
+# it also makes it so if you create a file as a regular user then move
+# it to become a system file, it's got slightly wrong permissions, and
+# sometimes thing break. Also, copying files between ubuntu and debian
+# makes things inconsistent. So stick with 022 umask always.
+#
+# One security concern is where some unixes put every user in a same
+# group, so if you copy files there with exact perms, that is probably
+# not what you want. I don't use a system like that, so I don't
+# care.
+umask 022
+# this is how we could test for non-system user
+
+#if test "$(id -u)" -ge 1000; then : fi