On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 05:38, John Nichel wrote:
Let's say I have a directory named 'bob', owned by 'foo' and in the group 'bar', with rwxrwxr-w permissions. How can I make it to where when a file/directory is created in the 'bob' directory is owned by 'foo' and in the group 'bar' with permissions of 664/775 no matter who creates the file/directory?
You can't do anything about the owner of the new files/directories, it'll be whoever created them. However, you can propagate the group ownership by setting the parent directory g+s, as in "chmod g+s bar" or "chmod 2775 bar".
The file mode will not propagate to newly created files/directories, it'll be determined by the umask of the creator.
Cheers Steffen.
Is there a way to set the umask for directories created different from the umask of files created? If I make a user's umask 113, both files and directories created by that user will have rw-rw-r, which is great for files, but sucks for directories.
-- John C. Nichel KegWorks.com 716.856.9675 john@xxxxxxxxxxxx
