Bug#3189: nvi over-cautious about .exrc?
From: Steve Greenland <stevegr@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>
> It would be possible to check if the owner and the group were the
> same, and allow mode 664 if that were the case. Is that sufficient,
> and is it worth doing? (What's the advantage of umask=002?)
You'd have to compare the string version, not the numeric UID and GID.
It sounds OK, though debian-specific.
Bruce
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