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From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@tcoip.com.br>
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cc: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: Change in application of default ACLs in UFS
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On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:

> Robert Watson wrote:
> >   
> >   Note: this change contains a semantic bugfix for new file creation:
> >   we now intersect the ACL-generated mode and the cmode requested by
> >   the user process.  This means permissions on newly created file
> >   objects will now be more conservative.  In the future, we may want
> >   to provide alternative semantics (similar to Solaris and Linux) in
> >   which the ACL mask overrides the umask, permitting ACLs to broaden
> >   the rights beyond the requested umask.
> 
> FWIW, I don't like it. This means I'll have to change my umask to o+rw 
> for my ACLs to work correctly, since I use ACLs to _give_ rights in ways 
> that umask cannot.
> 

It sounds to me as if additive rights or subtractive rights should be a
mount option..