On Tue, 20 Jun 2017 07:52:07 +1000 Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dunno. I'm fairly private and like to end my umask in a 7 normally. > Usually discussions revolve around the group bits. > > Normally you wouldn't share membership of your personal group - this > arranges that 027 (or the like) in your home directory is essentially > private. Instead, one makes other groups for shared work. So your 027 is effectively 077 because of your policy. > For example, my partner and I have a group for "us"; both our > personal accounts are in it (so it is a secondary group membership); > we have a shared third account (for stuff to do with home and so on); > its group has both our individual accounts as members, giving both of > us read/write to it. This sounds like a good way to deal with this issue: everything shared is explicitly declared and separated. After all the input, I think I'll stick with my 077, even though it really has no effect in my situation; it does no harm either. And these permissions probably have no effect for most Fedora users, but I still think it should default to 077; opt in to sharing rather than opt out. But I won't lose any sleep over it. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
