Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2014 12:04:40 -0800 From: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, garga@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Ports changing permissions on directories Message-ID: <D5D0E5D3-84C5-4D0E-BF0F-B481B33F1C8F@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <5485FE17.9050909@netfence.it> References: <5485FE17.9050909@netfence.it>
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On Dec 8, 2014, at 11:37 AM, Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> wrote: > Hello. >=20 > There are some ports that insist on changing permissions on some = directories. > An example is clamav, which will always change /var/db/clamav mask to = 755. >=20 > Since I always need to "chmod 775 /var/db/clamav" after an upgrade, = I'm asking: > _ where does this come from? I tried to look into Makefile, but didn't = get to it; Is the umask setup in your shell 022 or 002? With the FreeBSD tendency to always allocate both a user and group = together, having group-writable be a default option is reasonable, but most = software tends to assume that only the owner should have write access and not group = write. Regards, --=20 -Chuck
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