Have a look at umask ! Paul Paul Rolland, rol(at)as2917.net ex-AS2917 Network administrator and Peering Coordinator -- Please no HTML, I'm not a browser - Pas d'HTML, je ne suis pas un navigateur "Some people dream of success... while others wake up and work hard at it" "I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say 'Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?'" --Mike Godwin, Electronic Frontier Foundation > -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul Howarth > Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 7:18 PM > To: For users of Fedora Core releases > Subject: Re: How create a directory with full permiss for everybody > > Tony Nelson wrote: > > At 5:22 PM +0200 8/11/06, brouwers roland lx wrote: > > ... > >> I created a directory chmod 777 owner tdp group tdpgr > >> as a user frank I created a file, the owner is frank the > group is tdpgr > >> the permissions were -rw-r--r-- > >> as a user roland I opened the file and of course it was read only. > >> > >> So please explain me how you do it, because I can't. > > > > When a file is created, it is given the owner of its creator and the > > default group of its creator. For it to be "in" another > group, chgrp must > > be called to set that group. > > Not necessarily. If you make the directory owned by a > particular group > and then set the sgid bit on the directory (chmod g+s > /path/to/dir) then > new files created in that directory will have the same group as the > directory itself by default. > > Paul. > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >