Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] umask and sticky bit

[Jorge Almeida]

On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Håkon Alstadheim wrote:

> Jorge Almeida wrote:
>> I would like the default permissions for directories created by a
>> particular user to be 1775. Is there some way to achieve this? I think
>> umask doesn't deal with the sticky bit.
>>
> umask is a MASK. The application suggests permissions on new files,
> umask turns off the bits you do not want. I can not think of a fully
> automatic solution to what you want to do.
OK, thank you. The "application suggests" part was what I didn't know.
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Jorge Almeida