Users, Groups, and Sticky Bits, oh my!

[John Nichel]

Steffen Kluge wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 05:38, John Nichel wrote:
> 
>>Let's say I have a directory named 'bob', owned by 'foo' and in the 
>>group 'bar', with rwxrwxr-w permissions.  How can I make it to where 
>>when a file/directory is created in the 'bob' directory is owned by 
>>'foo' and in the group 'bar' with permissions of 664/775 no matter who 
>>creates the file/directory?
> 
> 
> You can't do anything about the owner of the new files/directories,
> it'll be whoever created them. However, you can propagate the group
> ownership by setting the parent directory g+s, as in "chmod g+s bar" or
> "chmod 2775 bar".
> 
> The file mode will not propagate to newly created files/directories,
> it'll be determined by the umask of the creator.
> 
> Cheers
> Steffen.
> 
> 

Is there a way to set the umask for directories created different from 
the umask of files created?  If I make a user's umask 113, both files 
and directories created by that user will have rw-rw-r, which is great 
for files, but sucks for directories.

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John C. Nichel
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