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

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Apr 18 09:52, Karl M wrote:
> > [ ] If the current user is an administrative user, make "Administrators"
> > the owner of the files:
> >
> > owner: Administrators.
> > group: The primary group of the account running setup.
> >
> > Comment: ____________________________________________________________
> >
> >
> I like number 3 the best. I generally use Administrators none and 755
> for everything but individual users files and special files that
> specific permissions for sshd and such. I currently run a script that
> hammers the permissions and ownership after each run of setup.exe. I
> usually just turn execute permissions on for everything, but I
> wouldn't mind doing a better job on that.
>  
> What about having setup look at a special file and use the ACL as a
> template for what it does? Then, once a user has installed and
> configued, setup.exe won't bork it later. The only reason that I run a
> script after each setup is to fixup mounts and permissions.

What for?  Solution 3 should be universal enough to not require running
chown afterwards at all.  Or only for very specific company needs.


Corinna

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