[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: Bug#581434: UPG and the default umask



On Sat,15.May.10, 13:03:16, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 10:04 +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> > #2 UPG with umask 022 is useless.
> Why is it?
> It makes that every user has its own group, and that other users can be
> added to it.
> This alone doesn't have any effect of course, as such added users have
> read rights anyway.
> But now it's easy for the owner of files to selectively set
> write-permissions for single files.

Why is an own group needed for this? Can't the admin just create groups 
as needed where both users shall belong?

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers:
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: Digital signature


Reply to: