On 6 Sep 2000 at 22:29, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote about "Re: setting umask...":
> 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.
I don't think we should make this per-list.
There're things that we just shouldn't let the average Joe touch, IMHO.
> Perhaps "archive_permissions" as an enum:
>
> readable - 644 (umask 227)
> restricted - 640 (umask 027)
> unreadable - 600 (umask 007)
BUT, if we are going to let them do it, then we should allow these OR the
numbers. Simple translation table does the job...
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Brock Rozen brozen@torah.org
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