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Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 14:03:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>
To: "Neil T. Mathison" <mathison@sara.cpb.org>
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Subject: Re: Changing file owner automatically on creation.
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I think one normally configs the web server to look in peoples home dirs
with their own perms so that URLs are then http://whereever/~userid

On Fri, 25 Jul 1997, Neil T. Mathison wrote:

> 
> Greetings,
> 
> I would like to automatically change a file's owner and group along
> with it permission bits. When a user creates a file within a certain
> directory tree, I have a need to chown that file to another owner and
> group. Moreover, I need to alter it's permissions. 
> 
> 
> I need someway of executing something like this scenario:
> 
>       1. New files created in the html document directory tree will
>          become owned by a user named "webadmin" (one or more people
>          could access this account)
>       2. The file's group would be set to the same as it's parent
>          directory.
>       3. The file mode would be set to 775.
> 
> User's will primarily be using ftp clients to upload the documents,
> logged in through there own accounts. (user: whatever, group: user).
> 
> Ideally, I would like it happen as soon as the file is created (closed),
> as opposed to running some script at a scheduled period. Is there a
> way of easily capturing a "file close event" and then kicking off
> a script? How are things like this normally accomplished?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Neil
> 
>