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From: msimpson@Teknowledge.COM (Mike Simpson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: files recovery after rm?
Message-ID: <592@alfred.Teknowledge.COM>
Date: 10 Nov 89 02:09:13 GMT
References: <16608@uhnix1.uh.edu> <20530@unix.cis.pitt.edu> <1989Nov9.162314.4713@virtech.uucp> <20551@unix.cis.pitt.edu> <1989Nov10.012648.8942@rpi.edu>
Reply-To: msimpson@teknowledge.com (Mike Simpson)
Organization: Cimflex Teknowledge Corp., Palo Alto CA
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Keywords: umask, chmod

In article <1989Nov10.012648.8942@rpi.edu> tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) writes:
>In <20551@unix.cis.pitt.edu> yahoo@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Kenneth L Moore) writes:
>Ken> I am assuming that you use a mask of 700 like I do so that people
>Ken> can't overwrite your files.
>
>This gets funnier and funnier all the time.  Why would you a) assume
>anything of the sort, b) set your own umask to 700 and c) think that a
>file with 066 (---rw-rw-) permission can't be overwritten by other
>people?

He was confusing the terms "umask" and "permission mode" (referring
to "chmod").  Be kind.