Re: UPG and the default umask
On 2010-05-19, Aaron Toponce <aaron.toponce@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 05/19/2010 01:00 PM, Philipp Kern wrote:
>> When I do "newgrp <group>" it's still UPG and the umask should still be=
>> 2, no? This check would change my umask.
>
> If the new default group is named something other than your username,
> it's no longe UPG. UPG is only if the user name and group name match,
> and the user is the only member of that group.
Sorry, I assumed that UPG is a system-wide concept and that I could just
change to my collaboration group and have a useful umask there too. So we
only cater for the setgid flag on directories?
Kind regards,
Philipp Kern
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