Re: Bug#80343: general: Lack of policy on which files should be owned by which user

["Eray Ozkural \(exa\)" <erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr>]

Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> 
> This is a big nuisance. I spent months working on a project with
> a shared directory without individual user groups. Worse yet, you
> can end up with a CVS repository full of files with user-only
> permissions (using a local CVS repositor, rather than remote).
> 

Ok. Then what I did was correct. I set up a developers group
and put all devels there, then I changed umask to 002 in /etc/profile.

I guess that's the way it works for multiple CVS users, right?
Since there are per user groups, the umask won't disrupt any other
operation.

Thanks,

-- 
Eray (exa) Ozkural
Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara
e-mail: erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr
www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo