Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 18:53:03 +0200 From: CARTER Anthony <a.carter@cordis.lu> To: Paul Lathrop <plathrop@mqtweb.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Simple / Stupid File Permissions Question Message-ID: <200305091853.03432.a.carter@intrasoft.lu> In-Reply-To: <C9881019-823C-11D7-9266-000393BF3DE2@mqtweb.com> References: <C9881019-823C-11D7-9266-000393BF3DE2@mqtweb.com>
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I guess UFS doesn't support inherited from directory permissions...Anyone? Anthony On Friday 09 May 2003 18:39, Paul Lathrop wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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