[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
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