group permissions and 4.2bsd - (nf)

stein at fortune.UUCP stein at fortune.UUCP
Thu Dec 22 14:04:42 AEST 1983


#R:ulysses:-73400:fortune:11600036:000:287
fortune!stein    Dec 21 17:09:00 1983

Another way around the umask problem is to create a group named "nogroup"
which has no members.  A user can then set a directory to this group and
not worry about the 002 umask for files created there.  And it only adds
one extra group to /etc/group.

				Mark Stein
				Fortune Systems



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