Re: Solaris - umask

From: Casper H.S. Dik (Casper.Dik_at_Sun.COM)
Date: 09/25/03 

Date: 25 Sep 2003 17:48:46 GMT

Chris Mattern <syscjm@gwu.edu> writes:

>And where does the default come from? Why, it comes from the
>program creating the file, which can set that default to whatever
>it wants. 666 or 777 is the usual practice, but if the program
>decides to make it 644, then the file will not be group/other
>writable *and umask cannot make it so.* The only way to
>get the program to produce group or other writable files
>is to modify the program itself.

Or apply default ACLs which gernally override the umask.

Casper

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