filepro and file permissions

[Dan Coutu]

Bob Stockler wrote:
> Dan Coutu wrote (on Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 04:18:34PM -0400):
>
> | How can I get filePro to set different file permissions than the
> | default? I'm running filePro on a red hat enterprise linux 4 system. It
> | insists on creating files with permissions that allow only the filepro
> | user to read/write the file and locks out everyone else. That's nice
> | sometimes and right now is a total thorn in my side. I need to allow
> | files created to be a least group read/write-able.
>
> That's a Linux-caused problem, not related to filePro, in its effort
> to become more "security conscious".
>
> When I had a Linux system running, I used "sudo" to have designated
> users run filePro stuff as the user "filepro" to work around it.
>
> I don't understand everything I know about it, so take this info with
> a grain of salt.
>
> Bob
>   
Am I right in thinking that filePro explicitly sets the uid of any child
process it creates to be the uid of the process that invoked filePro?
(Rather than letting the child process use the 'filepro' uid?)

Dan