On 12/20/05, Jeremy Huntwork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Nicholson wrote: > > > 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. > > I just re-read what you said as well, and I think I actually > misunderstood what you were saying, so sorry for that. Anyway, perhaps > the paragraph could be a little more clear on what's going on?
Definitely. I remember thinking the same thing you thought when I first read that some time ago. How bout this: "By default, users on the system do not create directories and files with group write permission. However, for non-system users whose user name and group name are the same, it is generally safe to enable group write permission." Eh, that still kind of sucks, but it's closer. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
