fpxfer export to a file - permissions/ownership

Nancy Palmquist nancy.palmquist at vss3.com
Fri Sep 15 13:28:56 PDT 2017


Jay,

Just remembered.  You can run setperms on the destination and once you 
locate everything where it goes, it will fix all the perms.  I am 
assuming of course this is some kind of *nix system.

Nancy


On 9/15/2017 9:14 AM, Jay R. Ashworth via Filepro-list wrote:
> The usual problem; fpxfer makes a file no one can read, and I'd prefer
> not to give out lots of permissions I don't have to .. and the menu item
> from which it's called is (of course) running as the user, cause runmenu
> isn't setuid.
>
> And in my history, I remember "fixing" that, and finding out why it's like
> that, so I won't do it again.
>
> That said, is there a standard method for, at least, specifying looser
> permissions to fpxfer for the file it creates?  Does it respect umask?
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
>

-- 
Nancy Palmquist         MOS & filePro Training Available
Virtual Software Systems    Web Based Training and Consulting
PHONE: (412) 835-9417           Web site:  http://www.vss3.com

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.celestial.com/pipermail/filepro-list/attachments/20170915/03a8113f/attachment.html>


More information about the Filepro-list mailing list