On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 12:13, Robert Williams wrote: > Phil Savoie wrote: > > >On August 14, 2003 12:41, Robert Williams wrote: > > > > > >>I have created a directory that is shared using 'owner.group' access on > >>a directory. rwilliams.mygroup is set on database directory. Since > >>Redhat uses rwilliams.rwilliams for the user/group as default, it is > >>causing me some trouble. When a user creates a file under /databases, > >>they are the only one that can change or delete the file. I tried chmod > >>g+s on /database, but that does not work. > >> > >>Any ideas? > >> > >> > > > >Hi Robert, > > > >You may want to create a new group called dbusers or some such and add those > >users to that group. Alternatively, you could, create a more defined groups > >structure and then on user creation assign the users accordingly based on > >your better defined group structure. > > > >Hope this helps you, > > > >Phil Savoie > > > > > > > This is similiar to what I have set up now. The thing is users can add > a file to the database dir (which has 'jarob' as the group), and all > users can read the files. But no one besides the creator of the file > can change or delete it. I have to go in manually and set g+w on the > files. Is there a way for g+w to be set when a new file is created? > Basically I want to inherit the g+w setting of the directory. > > Thanks again > > that would be the umask command. you would need no add umask g+rw to /etc/profile or some other script that gets executed when the user logs in.
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