From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 12 19:03:33 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 D8BFB16B6AB for ; Fri, 12 May 2006 19:03:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail1.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail1.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 811B943D64 for ; Fri, 12 May 2006 19:03:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 22400 invoked from network); 12 May 2006 19:03:21 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail1.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 12 May 2006 19:03:21 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 059D728426; Fri, 12 May 2006 15:03:21 -0400 (EDT) To: "Derrick Ryalls" References: <44hd3vl4x1.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 15:03:20 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Derrick Ryalls's message of "Fri, 12 May 2006 11:53:31 -0700") Message-ID: <44irobkqvb.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: New folder permissions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 19:03:36 -0000 "Derrick Ryalls" writes: > On 5/12/06, Lowell Gilbert wrote: >> There are a lot of ways to do this, but the one I would recommend is >> to change the main folder to be owned by a group that you, your wife, >> and the uid running the thumbnail script all are members of -- >> probably by creating a new group for the purpose. Then if you set >> your wife's umask to 002, directories she creates will be available to >> you and any other members of the group. >> > > Would I change the umask on the webserver or on her desktop? If on > the desktop, then how does this work when she is booted into Windows? > I do like the idea of this solution, but she doesn't even like shell > access so .bashrc wouldn't be executed. Is there a way to set umask > functionality somewhere else? > I think you need to configure Samba directly for this. I suspect "create mask = 0775" would do it.