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

[Ethan Benson]

On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 11:00:32AM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> 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.

no it isn't.

login scripts are for shells, sftp is not a shell.

> > 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.

wrong.

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

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