oddjob-mkhomedir doesn't use umask setting on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Home directory is not created with the umask 0077, but 0022.
  • /etc/login.defs has umask 077, so it's expected that the home directory is created with umask 077.
# grep UMASK /etc/login.defs
UMASK           077

# grep oddjob /etc/pam.d/system-auth /etc/pam.d/password-auth
/etc/pam.d/system-auth:session     optional      pam_oddjob_mkhomedir.so
/etc/pam.d/password-auth:session     optional      pam_oddjob_mkhomedir.so

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • oddjob-mkhomedir
  • pam_oddjob_mkhomedir

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