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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: hacknews
Subject: uucp umask fix
Message-ID: <4186@utzoo.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 7-Aug-84 16:04:57 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug  7 16:04:57 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 7-Aug-84 16:04:57 EDT
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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A large user file transfer from UTCS failed last night because uucp and
its minions don't bother resetting the umask, which screwed up the
permissions of newly-created directories in /usr/spool/uucppublic.
This is not uucp's only problem with permissions inherited from its
invoker; someday I'll fix this properly.  For the moment, uucp & co.
have been fixed to initialize their umasks to 0.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
				{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry