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> What with usergroups being the default behavior, do you think it's |
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> quite reasonable to use 002 as a default umask? Most group-sharing |
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> use-cases I've encountered have people that are sharing groups share |
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> files as read-write anyways, and by default, users have their own |
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> private group which nobody else is a member of; i.e. g+rw still won't |
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> allow others to write them. |
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That was the idea, RH did it that way a dozen |
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years ago for exactly the reason you mention: |
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dir mods of 02770 make it easy to share files |
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but require 002 umask. Fix was to set the |
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per-user group, allowing private dir's (largely |
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$HOME) to have tighter mods with files below |
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them "group readable" by a single-user group. |
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The scheme works rather nicely in nearly |
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every situation (POSIX ACL's play hell with |
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the scheme, but, then, they are supposed to). |
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enjoi |
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