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- Date: Tue, 4 Feb 86 07:19:30 PST
- >From: mordor!lll-crg!hoptoad!laura (Laura Creighton)
-
- I think that while it might have been better if umask had worked this way from
- the beginning, changing existing behaviour is a bad idea. You will burn
- people who expect one behaviour and get another.
-
- I am actually not sure that it is a good idea at all. The main reason I know
- of that people want the proposal is so that they can have a varying levels of
- protection and privacy without much effort. But if they really want privacy,
- then they *should* be going to the effort -- this is the whole idea. If they
- depend on the filesystem when they should be depending on themselves they are
- going to get a rude surprise one day when their security is compromised.
-
- I don't think that the current umask situation is broken. Why are we trying
- to fix it?
-
- [ See the following article by Dan Franklin. -mod ]
-
- Laura Creighton
- ihnp4!hoptoad!laura
- hoptoad!laura@lll-crg.arpa
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 5, Number 34
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