[Gllug] File permissions and umask on Ubuntu (and I think probably, Debian)
Tethys
sta296 at astradyne.co.uk
Sat Jan 6 20:44:32 UTC 2007
Progga writes:
> 1. Why is this shared-dir thing giving us so much trouble? Why didn't
> it come to anyone in the 28 year long history of Unix that there should
> be a very simple and easy solution? Really strange!
It did. That's what setgid directories and a suitable umask give you.
The problem here is that various bugs were resulting in the incorrect
umask being used.
Tet
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