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From: Greg P. <gp...@ap...> - 2015-01-06 22:37:03
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On Jan 6, 2015, at 9:42 AM, Rich Coe <rc...@wi...> wrote: > On Mon, 05 Jan 2015 17:02:33 +0100 > Florian Krohm <fl...@ei...> wrote: >> When we create a log-file (--log-file=...) that file has rw permissions >> for the owner and no permissions for group and other. >> Somebody was suggesting to change the permissions such that group also >> has read access. That seems like a reasonable request to me and I can >> see how that may facilitate certain workflows. >> I was wondering whether anybody sees a problem with that change. It >> looks benign to me. > > There's also a way to create it using the users specified umask. I don't > recall the specifics at the moment. I'll look it up. The specifics may be simply to create the file with permissive permissions. The OS starts with the permission you asked for and then applies the user's umask to make it less permissive. -- Greg Parker gp...@ap... Runtime Wrangler |