Rehashing My File Permissions Understanding(or lack of it)
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Tue Aug 23 09:06:39 UTC 2005
Mark Sargent wrote:
> expanding on this a little...when I set the dir to g+s it makes every
> file saved in the dir have the group's permissions, allowing everyone
> access, but, how does one set a particular dir so that any file saved to
> it, has particular permissions, like say, rwxrwxr--? Now, when I save a
> new file to the dir, it saves as the default permissions, rw-r--r--.
You can't. You'd have to change your umask from 022 to 002 to do this,
and it would affect all files/directories you created, not just the ones
in that directory.
Paul.
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