From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 12 19:21:43 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 A18C316A90E for ; Fri, 12 May 2006 19:21:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ryallsd@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0102.google.com (wx-out-0102.google.com [66.249.82.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0732A43D58 for ; Fri, 12 May 2006 19:21:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ryallsd@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id s19so376545wxc for ; Fri, 12 May 2006 12:21:30 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=tlUKwA5wktBoSBeD9rh2B3mgDml+/RzzTE7fsg6+ajYthx6YjxHFJ8IreeFJMPWZre2OdLsayw93kiSUIhjRGcTOMI233EQAyrQ1NY5XN+k51iQ0xCKfm71DRtzvhlV5tKNDTys7QBU8fo3fTvX5Lro6NK/W6yQZwZsKWGHnikw= Received: by 10.70.99.5 with SMTP id w5mr3337504wxb; Fri, 12 May 2006 12:21:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.42.4 with HTTP; Fri, 12 May 2006 12:21:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 12:21:30 -0700 From: "Derrick Ryalls" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, "Lowell Gilbert" In-Reply-To: <44irobkqvb.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <44hd3vl4x1.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <44irobkqvb.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Cc: Subject: Re: New folder permissions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 19:21:46 -0000 On 5/12/06, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > "Derrick Ryalls" writes: > > > On 5/12/06, Lowell Gilbert wr= ote: > > >> 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 =3D 0775" would do it. > > Thanks, I didn't even know about that option. I will try that out when I get home.