[Gllug] File permissions and umask on Ubuntu (and I think
Chris Bell
chrisbell at overview.demon.co.uk
Sun Jan 7 21:36:18 UTC 2007
On Sun 07 Jan, John Winters wrote:
>
> It's only a sensible one if you don't have separate groups for each user.
>
> Yes, the traditional UNIX approach is to have all users belonging to a
> group called "users" and a umask of 0022. The alternative approach of
> group-per-user and a umask of 0002 has also been around for a long time
> too now, and it seems to offer more functionality with no drawbacks, so
> it too is sensible.
>
I thought that you could set the default permissions individually for
each of the directories in /home and this would allow whatever variations
you wished. I have looked using KDE, and it does seem to allow this.
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Chris Bell
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