Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 15:03:20 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: "Derrick Ryalls" <ryallsd@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: New folder permissions Message-ID: <44irobkqvb.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <d5eb95fc0605121153i3d3f149bid28225ad4a54ce41@mail.gmail.com> (Derrick Ryalls's message of "Fri, 12 May 2006 11:53:31 -0700") References: <d5eb95fc0605111838r163d9a7dkfd879d8069f1f9c7@mail.gmail.com> <44hd3vl4x1.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <d5eb95fc0605121153i3d3f149bid28225ad4a54ce41@mail.gmail.com>
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"Derrick Ryalls" <ryallsd@gmail.com> writes: > On 5/12/06, Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> wrote: >> There are a lot of ways to do this, but the one I would recommend is >> to change the main folder to be owned by a group that you, your wife, >> and the uid running the thumbnail script all are members of -- >> probably by creating a new group for the purpose. Then if you set >> your wife's umask to 002, directories she creates will be available to >> you and any other members of the group. >> > > Would I change the umask on the webserver or on her desktop? If on > the desktop, then how does this work when she is booted into Windows? > I do like the idea of this solution, but she doesn't even like shell > access so .bashrc wouldn't be executed. Is there a way to set umask > functionality somewhere else? > I think you need to configure Samba directly for this. I suspect "create mask = 0775" would do it.
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