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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help for umask Post 302630015 by rbatte1 on Wednesday 25th of April 2012 09:24:55 AM
Old 04-25-2012
One wonders why the default file permissions should be RWX for all users. If you really want this, then you may be better defining an alias in your shell such that it edits the files then set the permissions. Something like:-
Code:
alias myvi="vi $*;chmod 777 $*"

... might suffice.

It does leave you very open to abuse though. Perhaps you would be better to consider granting access on a need basis rather than just the grant-to-all you are suggesting.



I hope that this helps,
Robin
Liverpool/Blackburn
UK
 

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NAME

       sbuild-adduser - add an sbuild user

SYNOPSIS

       sbuild-adduser [-h|--help | -V|--version] USER1 [USER2 [USERn...]]

DESCRIPTION

       sbuild-adduser  adds the specified users to the sbuild group, granting them the privelege to build packages with sbuild(1).  The schroot(1)
       configuration must permit the user to obtain root permissions in the chroot via the root-users and  root-groups	options  in  schroot.conf,
       because	this  is  required  to install and remove build-dependencies inside the chroot.  This is normally done using the sbuild group, but
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