Users, Groups, and Sticky Bits, oh my!

[John Nichel]

John Nichel wrote:
> 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.
> 

Doh, nevermind.  umask 002

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