How create a directory with full permiss for everybody

Tony Nelson tonynelson at georgeanelson.com
Fri Aug 11 16:04:04 UTC 2006


At 5:22 PM +0200 8/11/06, brouwers roland lx wrote:
 ...
>I created a directory chmod 777 owner tdp group tdpgr
>as a user frank I created a file, the owner is frank the group is tdpgr
>the permissions were -rw-r--r--
>as a user roland I opened the file and of course it was read only.
>
>So please explain me how you do it, because I can't.

When a file is created, it is given the owner of its creator and the
default group of its creator.  For it to be "in" another group, chgrp must
be called to set that group.  Ben's suggestion was to make the files
world-writable, so no chgrp would be needed, which is, as he said, very
unsafe.
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