[K12OSN] File ownership help
Kevin Verheyen
thepiano at telenet.be
Sun Aug 20 21:16:44 UTC 2006
Is there a way to set the umask permanent on dirs?
Or better: how to set the umask when login in?
Kevin
Op 19-aug-06, om 23:19 heeft Peter Scheie het volgende geschreven:
> You may be thinking of the group sticky bit. If you set this on a
> directory, the group for any files created in that directory will
> be the
> same as the group of the directory itself. So, for example if you
> have
> a directory /common and the group for it is users, and I, with ID
> petre:petre, meaning my primary group is also called petre, put a file
> in that directory, the group for that file will be users, not
> petre. To
> insure that everyone in the users group can read & write that file,
> check the default umask, which strips rights away from files; hint,
> you'll want the umask to be 002 if the group will need write
> permissions
> for the files created. You set the stick bit with chmod:
>
> chmod g+s common
>
> HTH
>
> Petre
>
> mrok12osn at eastgranby.k12.ct.us wrote:
>> A while back I remember reading about a way to always assign
>> ownership of
>> a file to the owner of the directory regardless of who the
>> creating user
>> is. I cannot remember where I read this. Can someone point me to
>> the
>> document or tell me how to do this.
>> Mark Orenstein
>> East Granby, CT School System
>> _______________________________________________
>> K12OSN mailing list
>> K12OSN at redhat.com
>> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn
>> For more info see <http://www.k12os.org>
>
> _______________________________________________
> K12OSN mailing list
> K12OSN at redhat.com
> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn
> For more info see <http://www.k12os.org>
>
More information about the K12OSN
mailing list