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Re: [opensuse-factory] RFC: Topics for 2007-04-19 dist meeting
- From: Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 10:53:50 +0200
- Message-id: <200704201053.50877.ludwig.nussel@xxxxxxx>
Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> * USB, and pretty much all hotplug, device mount options suck hamsters
> with straws. In a galactically big way. That is, there's no way to
> change them.
Huh? With the hal based mount users can do that with just a few
mouse clicks.
> * I find that I need to share files with family members all the time.
> Dito in return. If someone forgets to explicitly set group ownership and
> permissions on a file (daddy, what's that anyway?), the others can't
> read it. Ok it's a basic *ix problem for the computer scientists.
> However, family doesn't care, they Just Want It To Work(TM). Are there
> solutions? This case must be pretty common. No I don't count "stick it
> on a stick, because it has M$oft semantics ie no owners or permissions"
> as a solution.
SUSE Linux uses a default umask of 0022 and creates home directories
with mode 0755. So it does just work (TM).
cu
Ludwig
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> * USB, and pretty much all hotplug, device mount options suck hamsters
> with straws. In a galactically big way. That is, there's no way to
> change them.
Huh? With the hal based mount users can do that with just a few
mouse clicks.
> * I find that I need to share files with family members all the time.
> Dito in return. If someone forgets to explicitly set group ownership and
> permissions on a file (daddy, what's that anyway?), the others can't
> read it. Ok it's a basic *ix problem for the computer scientists.
> However, family doesn't care, they Just Want It To Work(TM). Are there
> solutions? This case must be pretty common. No I don't count "stick it
> on a stick, because it has M$oft semantics ie no owners or permissions"
> as a solution.
SUSE Linux uses a default umask of 0022 and creates home directories
with mode 0755. So it does just work (TM).
cu
Ludwig
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(o_ Ludwig Nussel
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