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From: joss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Josh Sirota)
Newsgroups: alt.sources
Subject: Re: Need a "watching" program
Message-ID: <1953@ur-cc.UUCP>
Date: 13 May 89 03:42:28 GMT
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In article <11680@s.ms.uky.edu> sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) writes:
> An easy solution is to "cd; chmod 700 .". That will insure that no one can

In article <12743@ihlpy.ATT.COM> bdavies@ihlpy.UUCP (55314-Davies,B.) writes:
>The trick is to do a chmod 2755 on the script.  This sets the 'setgid'

Why does everyone do this?  Just to confuse the novice?  Why not say
	"An easy solution is to "cd ; chmod go-rwx ."
or
	"The trick is to do a chmod g+s on the script."

Really.  *I* know what you all mean, but why does everyone teach the
octal way when these mnemonic ways exist that are so nice and easy to
understand for everyone?  Don't you all believe in abstraction?

Josh

BTW - if someone asked me what mode my directory was, I'd say either
"readable" or "755", so maybe I'm a slight hypocrit, but I'm quite sure
that a better way to do these postings would NOT be with the octal
modes.

Really - just a suggestion, not a flame.
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