Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 11:17:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@tcoip.com.br> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Change in application of default ACLs in UFS Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0308061116550.4704-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <3F314145.1010908@tcoip.com.br>
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On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Robert Watson wrote: > > > > Note: this change contains a semantic bugfix for new file creation: > > we now intersect the ACL-generated mode and the cmode requested by > > the user process. This means permissions on newly created file > > objects will now be more conservative. In the future, we may want > > to provide alternative semantics (similar to Solaris and Linux) in > > which the ACL mask overrides the umask, permitting ACLs to broaden > > the rights beyond the requested umask. > > FWIW, I don't like it. This means I'll have to change my umask to o+rw > for my ACLs to work correctly, since I use ACLs to _give_ rights in ways > that umask cannot. > It sounds to me as if additive rights or subtractive rights should be a mount option..
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