Make newly created directories 0775 by default

Brian Chadwick brianchad at westnet.com.au
Mon Feb 4 00:03:02 UTC 2008


Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 11:38 +1000, Brian Chadwick wrote:
>   
>> Excalibur Xcalibur wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi all,
>>>           Presently when somebody creates a directory, it's 0755. i.e. 
>>> not writable by the group. I have a file server and would like to 
>>> change this default property such that when somebody created a 
>>> directory it's 0775. i.e. writable by the group. For my file server, 
>>> this is a must as users of the same group need to be able to edit each 
>>> others folders. Thanks.
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Peter "Excalibur" 
>>>       
>> edit /etc/bashrc
>>
>> change umask 022 to umask 002.
>>     
>
> A normally logged in non-system user (with uname and group the same)
> already has umask set to 002 in /etc/bashrc.
>   

correct
>   
>
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