[Gllug] File permissions and umask on Ubuntu (and I think probably, Debian)

[Tethys]

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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