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



On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 12:14:54PM +0200, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote:
> 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.

That should work fine.


Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>



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