Proposal to remove confusing "security XX mask" parameters for 4.0.0

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Wed Oct 3 17:30:54 MDT 2012


On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 04:38:21PM -0400, Scott Lovenberg wrote:
> > Ok, I'm glad to head this.
> >
> > But this does bring up one more important thing.
> >
> > Currently the default setting for "create mask = 0744" and
> > "directory mask = 0755".
> >
> > If we're really going to recommend ACLs forever from
> > now on we should probably change these to 0777 as
> > a default.
> >
> > Jeremy.
> 
> Looks reasonable.  That's actually what I have for my global conf.

Ok, I have a patch under test for master that removes
these parameters.

I'm not going to change the defaults yet though, we can
add that if requested later.

Jeremy.


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