Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!eastapps!bodleian!geoff From: geoff@bodleian.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs Subject: Re: PCNFS, permissions, and UMASK Keywords: PC-NFS, UMASK, permissions Message-ID: <5521@eastapps.East.Sun.COM> Date: 15 Apr 91 18:13:45 GMT References: <1991Apr3.195733.15063@ottsun1.uucp> <5321@eastapps.East.Sun.COM> Sender: news@East.Sun.COM Reply-To: geoff@east.sun.com (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top) Distribution: na Organization: Sun Microsystems PC-NFS Engineering Lines: 15 Quoth rhoward@msd.gatech.edu (Robert L. Howard) (in ): #geoff@hinode.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top) writes: # #>Solution: have everyone run with the correct UMASK. # #Speaking of UMASK, has it been changed to work like the UNIX umask (i.e., #umask 022 makes files permission 644 and diriectories permission 755) #rather than treating files and directories the same? Yes, it was fixed. (Sorry for the delay in following up on this.) -- Geoff Arnold, PC-NFS architect, Sun Microsystems. (geoff@East.Sun.COM) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Sun Microsystems PC Distributed Systems ... -- -- ... soon to be a part of SunTech (stay tuned for details) --