Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 12:28:23 -0500 (CDT) From: Eduardo Viruena Silva <mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx> To: Chris Pressey <cpressey@catseye.mb.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Simple / Stupid File Permissions Question Message-ID: <20030509122649.C41420@Gina.esfm.ipn.mx> In-Reply-To: <20030509120751.5d591b61.cpressey@catseye.mb.ca> References: <C9881019-823C-11D7-9266-000393BF3DE2@mqtweb.com> <20030509120751.5d591b61.cpressey@catseye.mb.ca>
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On Fri, 9 May 2003, Chris Pressey wrote: > On Fri, 9 May 2003 12:39:22 -0400 > Paul Lathrop <plathrop@mqtweb.com> 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. change umask for the users that want to write in this directory. Instead of having: umask 022 try: umask 002 > 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 > > Hello, > > Not a solution, but a suggesion for a better kludge might be to use > /usr/ports/sysutils/wait_on to watch the directory for changes. > > Unfortunately, I don't think wait_on can watch for changes at any depth > in a directory hierarchy, only at the top level. (I'd love to be proven > wrong, though.) That limits its usefulness, but if you don't care > about subdirectories, it might be workable. > > -Chris > _______________________________________________ > 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" > - ______ _ * / /###\ / \ __ /\ /\ * / ./#### \ * \__|_/ | | / \/ \ | b#####| * _ | __ | | __ = .. \____ \ \_\#####/ / \| / \ | | /\_\/ = \_| * \___\###/ * \_/\_/\__/\__\/_/\__/ = \______/ _ | |
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