Re: [Gnu-arch-users] expert needed: arch doesn't support multi-committer archives!

[Andrew Suffield]

On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 01:22:45AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 10:08:54AM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 12:31:14AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > > > sftp DOES have a umask command built in, so arch can set the permissions
> > > > to whatever the sftp user-login has the ability to.
> > > > 
> > > > So how can we tell arch about these policies?
> > > 
> > > well either a =meta-info/=umask file, or it can stat the top level
> > > directory (say the cat--branch--version directory).  and set a umask
> > > to match the permissions it has set.
> > 
> > Setting the umask is what your login scripts are for.
> 
> login scripts are not run on sftp connections.

That's a bug.

> besides that my method of stat'ing various directories and setting a
> umask to match those permissions is much more flexible.

That's a solution in search of a problem.

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