mkdir -p does not play nice when the directory (/home in this case) has a default ACL.
22:57 Kiste:/home # strace -e mkdir mkdir test1 mkdir("test1", 0777) = 0 22:57 Kiste:/home # strace -e mkdir mkdir -p test2 mkdir("test2", 0755) = 0 22:57 Kiste:/home # ls -dl test1 test2 drwxrwxr-x+ 2 root root 4096 Jul 21 22:57 test1 drwxr-xr-x+ 2 root root 4096 Jul 21 22:57 test2 Using 0755 is what I deem the bug, and 0777 is what I think is correct. Happens with coreutils 6.11 and 6.9. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils