Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] umask 002 in /etc/profile
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 05:43:41
Message-Id: 200904010742.06598.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] umask 002 in /etc/profile by Mark David Dumlao
1 On Wednesday 01 April 2009 04:31:03 Mark David Dumlao wrote:
2 > You know, I was thinking a bit,
3 >
4 > What with usergroups being the default behavior, do you think it's
5 > quite reasonable to use 002 as a default umask? Most group-sharing
6 > use-cases I've encountered have people that are sharing groups share
7 > files as read-write anyways, and by default, users have their own
8 > private group which nobody else is a member of; i.e. g+rw still won't
9 > allow others to write them.
10
11 For the average user, this is quite fine.
12
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14 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com