I was under the impression that changing the umask was a possible
security risk. Am I correct in thinking that?
jay
On Aug 23, 2005, at 4:06 AM, Paul Howarth wrote:
Mark Sargent wrote:
expanding on this a little...when I set the dir to g+s it makes every
file saved in the dir have the group's permissions, allowing everyone
access, but, how does one set a particular dir so that any file saved
to it, has particular permissions, like say, rwxrwxr--? Now, when I
save a new file to the dir, it saves as the default permissions,
rw-r--r--.
You can't. You'd have to change your umask from 022 to 002 to do this,
and it would affect all files/directories you created, not just the
ones in that directory.
Paul.
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