From: Dan Zlotnikov <dzlotnik@artsmail.uwaterloo.ca>
To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: group
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2003 08:52:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1072360334.3feaeb8e1ca4d@ecserv7.uwaterloo.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0312251127290.32132-100000@orthanc.lemmerling.net>
Quoting jos@lemmerling.nl:
> The last step is to change the default umask to 002 instead of 022 so all
> files will have the permissions set correctly (-rw-rw-r-- instead of
> -rw-r--r--). If you don't do this, user1 cannot change the files user2 has
> created.
>
> The default umask can be set in the users profile
> (/home/user1/.bash_profile) with the line "umask 002".
Pardon me if I'm confused, but does that mean that any user can change the
default umask at will?
Not to mention, this will apply to all of that user's files, not just the ones
in /home/everyone/
"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes."
--Mazer Rakham, from Orson Scott Card's "Ender's Game"
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-25 13:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-25 7:07 group dave
2003-12-25 10:48 ` group jos
2003-12-25 11:07 ` group jos
2003-12-25 13:52 ` Dan Zlotnikov [this message]
2003-12-25 14:20 ` group Jos Lemmerling
2003-12-25 15:14 ` group Dan Zlotnikov
2003-12-25 16:48 ` group Jos Lemmerling
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2003-12-26 20:38 group dave
2003-12-26 22:17 ` group Ray Olszewski
2003-12-26 23:32 ` group Jos Lemmerling
2004-01-01 21:17 group dave
2004-01-01 21:42 ` group Ray Olszewski
2004-01-02 4:18 group dave
2004-01-02 20:23 ` group caszonyi
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