On 11:53 02 Feb 2003, Dennis Gilmore <dennis@dgilmore.net> wrote: | <snip> | > The advantage of the per-user matching group is that it makes group | > collaboration very easy. When you work with others, sharing files, you | > often have a shared area (the "project" directory at my workplace) where | > the files are group owned by a group for the project and the setgid bit | > is on all the directories so new files acquire that group for sharing | > purposes. Naturally, doing group work one's umask should be 007 or | > 002 (depending on security environment - we do 002 at work). _BUT_, | > how to ensure that personal files (made elsewhere, eg your $HOME dir) | > are private by default, and _without_ just putting 700 mode on $HOME, | > because we have a fairly open culture at work. It would be nice to not | > have to remember to hack your umask when switching to/from group work. | > | You can set the shared directory to be owned by user nobody and group | "Shared" then run chmod 2770 on the directory. [...snip...] Which is exactly what I just described. You've missed the point. The blessing of the per-user group is that you don't need to hack your umask between group and personal stuff. Please learn to trim quoted matrial for relevance. Thanks. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 cs@zip.com.au http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ It is idle to talk always of the alternative of reason and faith. Reason itself is a matter of faith. - James Sledd <jsledd@mcneil.sas.upenn.edu> -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
