[K12OSN] File Permission Problem

Jim Kronebusch jim at winonacotter.org
Mon Aug 2 14:58:14 UTC 2004


> The way I fixed this on a server for a program we run is just 
> to go to the 
> directory where the files is and chmod 777 (filename).  Then chown 
> root:root (filename).
> 
> This makes it so that anyone can write to it but it sticks 
> around whenever 
> no one else is using the database.  Root always owns the file 
> and it is 
> world read-writeable.
> 
> May not be the best solution, but it does work for me.

Thanks.  The problem was the separate umask set in Samba.  Once I
changed the samba umask to 007 and not just the local linux umask.

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