Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Filesystem permissions

[Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs@online.de>]

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Am Freitag, 4. Juli 2008 schrieb Florian Philipp:
> On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 18:35:58 +0200
>
> Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Friday 04 July 2008, Florian Philipp wrote:
> > > I've just set the umask 0007 in /etc/profile. With the rule that
> > > every user has his own primary group (as it is default), this is
> > > sufficient for my needs.
> >
> > Hmmm. That gives permissions:
> >
> > rw-rw----
> >
> > on every single new file created by every single user by default.
> >
> > If you are happy with that, so be it. I would not be happy with
> > that :-)
>
> Since every user has another primary group this doesn't cause problems.
> Only on folders with SETGID where the group is changed by design this
> umask causes other users to have write and read permissions and that's
> what I wanted in the first place.

And what about the packages you install/update as root? I'd bet that not all 
give the exact permissions when calling "install".

Bad idea.

Bye...

	Dirk

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