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Guide to the Secure Configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
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Ensure sudo umask is appropriate - sudo umask
Ensure sudo umask is appropriate - sudo umask
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Ensure sudo umask is appropriate - sudo umask
Medium Severity
The sudo
umask
tag, when specified, will be added the to the user's umask in the command environment. On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, the default
umask
value is 0022. The umask should be configured by making sure that the
umask=
tag exists in
/etc/sudoers
configuration file or any sudo configuration snippets in
/etc/sudoers.d/
.