Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Linus

[Colin Walters]

On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 18:28, Tom Lord wrote:

> A set of possible solutions was presented.

We agree there :)

> A _subset_ of those possible solutions involved creating new accounts.

Sure, but it was also the only solution that was immediately available
that would actually work.

Let me see if I have all the other solutions here:

1) Set your umask in a login script
  - Doesn't work at the moment, sftp doesn't run login scripts
2) Have ssh run a different subsystem
  - Not implemented, and would probably be a pain to configure anyways

Also as Ethan pointed out these solutions make having different
permission schemes on different categories/versions difficult.  And not
to mention that neither of these work for when you want to share an
archive in the local filesystem (no ssh involved).

Sure, Ethan's umask scheme may not be the most beautiful thing in the
world, but it would have the advantage of closely corresponding to the
way traditional Unix filesystem permissions work, and would not require
special hacks for ssh.