Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site fortune.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!hpda!fortune!stein From: stein@fortune.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: group permissions and 4.2bsd - (nf) Message-ID: <2091@fortune.UUCP> Date: Wed, 21-Dec-83 23:04:42 EST Article-I.D.: fortune.2091 Posted: Wed Dec 21 23:04:42 1983 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Dec-83 01:55:54 EST Sender: notes@fortune.UUCP Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA Lines: 11 #R:ulysses:-73400:fortune:11600036:000:287 fortune!stein Dec 21 17:09:00 1983 Another way around the umask problem is to create a group named "nogroup" which has no members. A user can then set a directory to this group and not worry about the 002 umask for files created there. And it only adds one extra group to /etc/group. Mark Stein Fortune Systems