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Subject: Re: setting umask for archives ...
From: Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs @ math . uh . edu>
Date: 07 Sep 2000 08:39:57 -0500
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In-reply-to: Brock Rozen's message of "Thu, 7 Sep 2000 09:33:38 +0200 (IST)"
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>>>>> "BR" == Brock Rozen <brozen@torah.org> writes:

BR> I don't think we should make this per-list.

What if I _don't_ want downloadable archives for a list?  We still have to
keep them so the digests and such can be built.  So what do I do?  If
they're always created mode 644 then I would call that a security issue.

BR> BUT, if we are going to let them do it, then we should allow these OR
BR> the numbers. Simple translation table does the job...

Why?  What on earth does that buy you, besides even more work for poor SRE?

 - J<



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