Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 10:43:45 -0400 From: Alan Clegg <abc@shell.wetworks.org> To: Stephen Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Offensive figures (wa: Why?) Message-ID: <20000630104345.B8409@shell.wetworks.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10006301033280.9654-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net>; from shovey@buffnet.net on Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 10:34:53AM -0400 References: <OF16701279.49C87737-ON8825690E.004EF4E6@sce.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.10006301033280.9654-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net>
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An SMTP stream claimed that Stephen Hovey muttered:
> Oh I have an admin that just WONT chown a file or dir 666 - he does 777 or
> 444... I think it runs along the same lines as a co worker years ago,
> when she lambasted me over the fact that I had purchased a real christmas
> tree - something about my contributing to the tear down of the rain
> forests I think..
Ah, the chmod 'problem' is easily workable:
chmod a=rw filename
So, there we go, a workaround. I guess the "right" thing to do would be
to disable the numeric mode. B-)
AlanC {having just sent his 5 yr old to daycare wearing "Daemon Horns"}
http://alan.clegg.com/cgi-bin/USENIX?06210023.jpg
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