uMask question

uMask question

[Glenn at home]

I cannot figure out from the man pages if umask should equal
022 or 077
if I want users to have full access to files that have been uploaded by 
other users.
Thanks for some help here.
Glenn

Re: uMask question

[Sean McMahon]

I'm with you on that one.  We had the same problem at work.  when files were at
022, I could not overide files if I did a make or something.  You probably have
a special group for this purpose?  002 will allow read/write access.  This is
really insecure.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Glenn at home" <GlennErvin@cableone.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 11:29 AM
Subject: uMask question


> I cannot figure out from the man pages if umask should equal
> 022 or 077
> if I want users to have full access to files that have been uploaded by
> other users.
> Thanks for some help here.
> Glenn
>
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Re: uMask question

[Ralph W. Reid]

On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 12:29:30PM -0600, Glenn at home wrote:
> I cannot figure out from the man pages if umask should equal
> 022 or 077
> if I want users to have full access to files that have been uploaded by 
> other users.
> Thanks for some help here.
> Glenn

For the situation and choices you describe, `umask 022` should do the
trick.  Note that if some one creates an executable file (compiles a
program for example), the default action will be to make the file both
readable and executable with a umask value of 022.  Of course, `umask`
defines the default--file permissions can always be changed with
`chmod` if desired.  HTH, and have a _great_ day!

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