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- From: lee@ceg.uiuc.edu (Chris Lee)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.wizards
- Subject: Re: Proposal: UNIX needs group-dependent umasks.
- Keywords: Duff Beer
- Message-ID: <lee.727634902@ceg.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 16:48:22 GMT
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- mosedale@genome.stanford.edu (Dan Mosedale) writes:
-
- >I recently have had the following problem:
-
- >Generally, in your home directory, you will want to mask out group
- >writes (eg have a umask of 022). After all, you generally don't want
- >other folks able to poke around in your personal stuff.
-
- >However, when working as part of a group project, when you copy files
- >around and create new files, you'd like them to remain group-writable
- >(eg have a umask of 002).
-
- >There ought to be a better way. Has anyone added this idea to the
- >Unix filesystem paradigm? Thoughts?
-
- Apollo's Domain/OS has some REAL nice features in this respect.
- Sure, it isn't real UNIX (tho many die-hard apollo users will
- say that from 10.x, it's just like real unix AND just as bad as
- real unix :-)). 2 of the ACL features I (used to) use the most
- are the default ACL inheritance (every file created under a
- certain directory will have a certain permission associated with
- it) and what you mention (being able to change the permission of
- a particular file or directory so anyone I CHOOSE can access the
- file). UNIX does not have these features -- maybe later releases
- of UNIX (or even OSF) will have this built into it.
-
- --
- Chris Lee
- University of Illinois Urbana
- lee@ceg.uiuc.edu
- (217)244-2903
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