Richard Geißler wrote: > 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
Hello Richard, I think that we should do this, but I also know that Lars dislikes ad hoc solutions. Quoting an earlier mail of his: Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > I am not confident that this is the correct way of doing it... > I think the -m options to install should be used. > Or the -m option to mkdir. > Or... we should do a chmod at the end... for all dirs This being the case, would it not make more sense to patch mkinstalldirs, so that every directory is created 755 by default? -- Angus
