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- From: Hamish.Macdonald@x400gate.bnr.ca (Hamish Macdonald)
- Subject: Re: VM problem?
- In-Reply-To: ghh@clarity.Princeton.EDU's message of Tue, 10 Nov 1992 22:30:52 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.140728.2386@bmerh85.bnr.ca>
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- Organization: Bell Northern Research
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- <GHH.92Nov10173052@clarity.princeton.edu>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 14:07:28 GMT
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- >>>>> On Tue, 10 Nov 1992 22:30:52 GMT,
- >>>>> In message <GHH.92Nov10173052@clarity.princeton.edu>,
- >>>>> ghh@clarity.Princeton.EDU (Gilbert Harman) wrote:
-
- Gilbert> In checking whether my INBOX~ folder was global readable, I
- Gilbert> discovered it was not but that almost all my vm folders are
- Gilbert> readable, no doubt because my umask is 022. Is there a way
- Gilbert> to get new vm folders not to be global readable if I want my
- Gilbert> permissions to be more permissive for most new files?
-
- I put my VM folders in a directory which has 700 permissions. My
- umask is the friendly 022.
-