Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 18:47:02 +0100 From: Lewis Thompson <lewiz@compsoc.man.ac.uk> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: user owned groups Message-ID: <20050511174702.GA23222@noisy.compsoc.man.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <428242D7.6040103@mac.com> References: <20050511165506.GC10213@asu.edu> <428242D7.6040103@mac.com>
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On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 01:37:27PM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: > If all of the users have their default group be staff or some such, anyone > can change any file which is group-writable. If each user has their > default group be a unique group (with UID==GID), then users can safely use > a 002 umask, without worrying about their files being stolen or changed by > other users, and yet still use group accounts to work with other users when > they do want to share files with. Okay, I'm going to jump in now and ask something I have always wanted to know the answer to but always seem to forget. Can /home be configured so all files are created with permissions of 0600 (or 0700 for directories)? I use a umask of 77 but that's annoying when playing with files in other locations. Sorry if this is obvious/stupid :) -Lewis Thompson. -- I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. --Bob Dylan, 1964. -| msn:lewiz@fajita.org | jabber:lewiz@jabber.org | url:www.lewiz.org |-
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