On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 12:06:42PM -0400, Antiphon wrote: > On Mon, 10 May 2004 17:45:36 +0200, Ulrich F�rst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >Silvan schrieb: > >> This seems like what you want. It would probably be better to use a > >>umask of 0007 instead, so you still have *some* control. (I should > >>have used that in the above example, but I'm too lazy to go back and > >>re-do it. :) > > > >If I get it right 0007 would lead to denie access to anyone not beeing > >user or in the group of the file, and giving full access to the file for > >user and group? That would be what I want! > > > > No. 0007 means that anyone can write to it who is not a member of your > group and who doesn't own the file. It sounds like you want 0070 instead > The numbers are (special-user-group-other) >
Would some explain further the 4 number system? More exactly, the last three numbers are clear, they are explained everywhere, but the first one, refering to "special", is not explained anywhere that I know. I will be happy to read about it. I imagine that the first digit has to do with the "sticky bit", about which I wouldn't mind reading. It seems that in most references that I have seen they don't talk about it much. Thank you all.
