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Re: Question: Desired owner/group when running setup-1.7.exe


Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> Sorry, but this is getting too complicated.  I thought I'm asking a
> simple question.  I was just trying to help this along so that the least
> number of people have trouble with the default file permissions.

You're right. Sorry for muddying the waters; that wasn't my intention.

> Here's another simple approach:
> 
>   Keep all ownership as it is.  Just add an ACE for the administrators
>   group with rw- access rights to the ACL of files created/unpacked by
>   setup.

Yep, I think that would address most people's concerns.

--
Chuck


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