From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 9 09:39:23 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 814D037B404 for ; Fri, 9 May 2003 09:39:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rackspace.mqtweb.com (rackspace.mqtweb.com [65.61.155.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A84843F3F for ; Fri, 9 May 2003 09:39:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from plathrop@mqtweb.com) Received: from mqtweb.com (Minerva.resnet.nmu.edu [204.38.206.120]) by rackspace.mqtweb.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B850320F6 for ; Fri, 9 May 2003 10:49:49 +0000 (GMT) Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 12:39:22 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v552) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed From: Paul Lathrop To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.552) Subject: Simple / Stupid File Permissions Question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 16:39:23 -0000 I have a simple/stupid question regarding permissions. What I would like is the following: I have a directory called group_dir that I would like all members of a group to be able to work in. However, I find that whenever someone creates a file in that directory, it is not set group writable. I know the user's umask setting affects this, but I don't want to change that - then ALL their files would come out group writable. Basically, I want all files in group_dir to be readable and writable by group members by default, including newly created files. Is there a way to do this? I thought up a kludge to use cron to periodically run chmod -R... but that is so ugly I don't really want to do it that way. Thanks for your assistance, Paul D. Lathrop