Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 14:48:15 -0500 (EST) From: Rich Fox <rich@foxengines.net> To: "Phillip Smith (mailing list)" <lists@3bags.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FW: A question about umask, groups and classes Message-ID: <20030131144709.G143-100000@test_server.no.domain> In-Reply-To: <007101c2c948$c69384a0$aeb423cf@3bagsmedia>
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Hi,
I believe in my adventures, this successfully worked by placing the
umask command in /etc/login.conf...
default:\
:copyright=/etc/COPYRIGHT:\
:welcome=/etc/motd:\
[snip]
:priority=0:\
:ignoretime@:\
:umask=002:
Rich.
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On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Phillip Smith (mailing list) wrote:
>
> ** re-post **
>
> Hi there,
>
> What I'm trying to accomplish is
> - to have a group of users called 'developers'
> - read/write access to all files created by any member of that group by
> each member of that group.
>
> I believe in the past I've accomplished this via a umask of 002, but I
> don't recall where I put that to have it automatically assigned to all
> users in a certain group? Also, I've stumbled on the whole login.conf
> stuff, which seems to speak to 'classes' of users? I've never used user
> classes, is this a better way to set this?
>
> Preferably, I don't want to have to set the GUID on every folder the
> group is jointly working on. I'd rather have all files group
> readable/writeable by default. Are there any reasons not to do this?
>
> Many thanks in advance,
>
> phillip.
>
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