Re: make install: permission of lyx/xfonts

[Richard Geißler]

Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:

Richard Geißler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

| Angus, what umask are you using? In my case, root uses umask 077 for
| security reason (as user root I prefer providing permissions rather
| than removing permissions). Then I get:
| drwx------    2 root     root          368 Feb  5 10:04 xfonts

So you get exactly what you ask for: higher security, but lower "ease
of use".

In the case of software installation I would prefer to get the permissions set to reasonable values (so that the installation can be used by normal users). The permissions of all installed files are set to e.g. 644 ignoring root's umask. Why not ignoring (overiding) root's umask for creating directories?

Richard