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

[Jonathan Walther]

On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 10:08:54AM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > > 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.

Some people use their user accounts for more than just arch.  Setting up
login scripts that hog-tie you to a umask that you ONLY want for your
archive, but not for regular usage, is not acceptable.

Jonathan

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