Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 12/20/05, Jeremy Huntwork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] >>However, if I'm reading the script correctly, this actually happens when >>the user and group name *are* the same and it's an id above 99: >> >>if [ "$(id -gn)" = "$(id -un)" -a $EUID -gt 99 ] ; then >> umask 002 > > > That's right. The default is 022. This tests whether normal users > (UID>99) have the same user and group name. If they are, then they > create group writable files and directories with a new umask. > Possibly the umask notation's throwing you for a loop?
No, I think you missed my point. The paragraph says that we're ensuring that group write permissions are turned off when the user name and group name *are not* the same. But the script tests to make sure that they *are* the same and then issues uname 002. -- JH -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
