On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 11:38 +1000, Brian Chadwick wrote: > Excalibur Xcalibur wrote: > > Hi all, > > Presently when somebody creates a directory, it's 0755. i.e. > > not writable by the group. I have a file server and would like to > > change this default property such that when somebody created a > > directory it's 0775. i.e. writable by the group. For my file server, > > this is a must as users of the same group need to be able to edit each > > others folders. Thanks. > > > > -- > > Peter "Excalibur" > > > edit /etc/bashrc > > change umask 022 to umask 002. A normally logged in non-system user (with uname and group the same) already has umask set to 002 in /etc/bashrc. > -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Mathematical Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs