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

[Ethan Benson]

On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 01:51:52AM -0700, Jonathan Walther wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 12:31:14AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> >On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 12:46:08AM -0700, Jonathan Walther wrote:
> >>
> >>Can anyone recommend a change to arch that will let it conform to your
> >>security policy by default?
> >
> >looks like this can be solved by getting arch to set the right umask.
> >quite easy really.
> 
> Thanks Ethan, that sounded very sensible.
> 
> Tom, any objections?  Xouvert needs to release something within the
> next 10 days, and we're willing to tell our developers they have to use
> your very latest developement version.
> 
> Can we get a "tla umask" command added, which will put the umask in
> {arch}/=meta-info/=umask, and then have the sftp transport set the umask
> at the beginning of each session?

personally i like the auto-detect version better.. also shouldn't it
do this for all transports?  or does webdav not support umask/chmod etc?

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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