On 12/20/05, Jeremy Huntwork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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.
The wording's wrong, but earlier in /etc/profile, umask is set to 022. So what I said in the second paragraph about how "we're only gonna change the group write permissions if non-system user and user name = group name" is more accurate. I probably should have deleted the first thing I wrote, but, well, yeah. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
