How create a directory with full permiss for everybody
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Fri Aug 11 23:40:46 UTC 2006
On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 16:52 +0200, roland brouwers wrote:
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ben Stringer <ben at burbong.com>
> > Sent: Friday, 11. Aug 2006 15:26 +0200
> > To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> > Subject: Re: How create a directory with full permiss for everybody
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> > On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 22:28 +0930, Tim wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 22:50 +1000, Ben Stringer wrote:
> > > > If you want every account to have access to the directory, there is
> > > > already a category of permissions for that - no need to put everyone in
> > > > a group. Just make sure the directory has permissions drwxrwxrwx, which
> > > > can be done using "chmod 777 directory".
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> > > I wouldn't do that, it gives unfettered access to *everything*. At
> > > least doing what the original poster discussed, making it for a select
> > > group of users, mitigates some of the security issues.
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> > I'm curious - how do you think adding every user to a group and
> > providing group read/write/execute differs from providing global
> > read/write/execute?
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> > I believe it is by definition identical.
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> > (And, as my first post says, I don't think either idea is advisable).
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> > Cheers, Ben
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> I you create a directory with chmod 777 and you create a file with openoffice, the permission wil be -rw-r--r-- owned by the user who created it.
> How can you expect another user to open it and change it?
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The issue, as has already been mentioned, is the users umask.
You can change the individual users umask with an entry in ~/.bashrc or
change the umask for all users by making a change in /etc/bashrc so at
login time all users would get something different than the default 022
umask.
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> With samba you can tell to force a user when creating a file and when you do a disc mounting you also can inforce a user or permissions. Isn't there a way directly fo force permissions and users set to a created file?
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> roland
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