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On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 01:33:02PM +0100, Oliver Humpage wrote:
> on 31/8/07 12:44, Amias Channer at underscore at amias.org.uk wrote:
> 
> > maybe if you specically unset the umask then the acl should work as
> > expected ? after all its just a mask so setting it to 000 should make
> > sure it has no effect.
> 
> Not having a umask and relying on an ACL mask just seems instinctively icky,
> in a "what happens if for some reasons ACLs are removed" kinda way. But it'd
> certainly work (although these are "scponlyc" accounts uploading straight to
> a DocumentRoot with no home environment, so I'd need to set a umask of 000
> via a class in login.conf). I'll give it some thought :)

I hope that works out, your first post made sense and to me should have worked
so if you find the problem it would be great to know what it was.

Sorry this is no help, not had time to try it out myself and I
wouldn't expect to have any more luck than you. Clearly a useful
feature you were looking to get though.

        Steve