Re: setting umask for archives ...

[Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs @ math . uh . edu>]

>>>>> "THH" == The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> writes:

THH> possible?

I don't think so.  This has been on the TODO list:

! Make sure that archives get a separate umask, so that people can
  download them.

I suggest a crontab until we can fix this.  I'm not even sure what the best
method is; this probably needs to be a per-list configurable but umasks and
modes are tough to explain to folks who may have no experience with Unix.
It's OK to ask the installer, I think, as long as we explain it, but we
can't expect the average list owner to understand what '027' has to do with
anything.

Perhaps "archive_permissions" as an enum:

  readable   - 644 (umask 227)
  restricted - 640 (umask 027)
  unreadable - 600 (umask 007)

?

 - J<