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Re: Question about default permissions for copy
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Mark . Burgess |
Subject: |
Re: Question about default permissions for copy |
Date: |
Wed, 6 Jun 2001 07:53:53 +0200 (MET DST) |
On 5 Jun, Jorge Garcia wrote:
> I'm a recent cfengine convert. But I have been looking for the answer to
> this question in all the docs, and can't find it. The question is:
>
> When you do a copy command, what does cfengine use to set the permissions
> if they are not specified?
>
> This seems to be very strange. As a test, I created a directory with
> sample files of all semi-normal permissions. Then I did a copy of the
> directory to a different directory. What I would expect is that, if
> permissions are not specified, it assigns the same permissions as the
> source files. But it seemed to assign all files to the same strange
> permission.
>
> Here is the source directory:
>
> drwxr-xr-x ./
> drwxrwxr-x ../
> -r--r--r-- f444
> -r-xr-xr-x f555*
> -rw-r--r-- f644
> -rw-rw-r-- f664
> -rwxr-xr-x f755*
> -rwxrwxr-x f775*
> -rwxrwxrwx f777*
>
> And here is the resulting "copy":
>
> d----w---- .
> drwxrwxr-x ..
> -rw--w---- f444
> -rw--w---- f555
> -rw--w---- f644
> -rw--w---- f664
> -rw--w---- f755
> -rw--w---- f775
> -rw--w---- f777
>
> Any suggestions? Please e-mail directly.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jorge
>
>
>
>
>
PLease say what version, what OS.
M
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