Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:48:53 -0400 From: John Almberg <jalmberg@identry.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Sorting out owner and group permissions... Message-ID: <1F1D939A-3787-4C5A-995B-93EDABF0BE5A@identry.com>
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I have a directory called 'scans' that is owned by 'master', but I want to allow 'customer' to FTP images to that directory. This is the way I have permissions set: # ls -l drwxrwxr-x 5 master customer 251904 Apr 20 10:29 scans The problem is that when customer ftp's a file to the directory, the permissions end up like this: -rw-r----- 1 customer customer 772584 Apr 20 15:28 image.jpg When a process run by 'master' tries to copy this file to another directory (also owned by master), I get the following: # cp scans/image.jpg thumbs/image.jpg cp: scans/image.jpg: Permission denied The only solution that occurs to me smells like a newbie kludge: to have a root cron job periodically chown all the images to master:customer. This seems like the proverbial sledgehammer. There must be a better way? Any thoughts, much appreciated! -- John
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