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Date:      Wed, 29 Jun 2005 14:15:50 -0400
From:      Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        motionsiren <motionsiren@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: directory permissions, sticky bits, chmod, etc.
Message-ID:  <B0A2E791-A387-4A1F-83F6-281046FAD7BE@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <781e2bc0050629110029fb17ee@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <781e2bc0050629110029fb17ee@mail.gmail.com>

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On Jun 29, 2005, at 2:00 PM, motionsiren wrote:
> Im embarassed to ask but the man's aren't making any sense to me.
>
> I have a group of users that are all in the same group. They like to
> share a common directory but find that they're files are rwxr-xr-x.
> I'd like to make sure that every file within that directory has
> rwxrwxr-x permissions as they need to write to each others files.

You can do a "chmod -R g+w PATH" to fix things for now.

But for this to work as you like, the users need to set their umask  
to 002.  You also want to make sure each userid has a default group  
which only they are members of, commonly done by setting up gid == uid.

-- 
-Chuck




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