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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