Re: [LUG] File permissions and access rights

[Rick Timmis <rick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Now that's what I call a quality bit of information, thanks very much 
for that

I dropped the line umask 002 into the .bash_profile. and the job is a goodun

Thanks Again
Rick :-D  ( Happy Cheesy Grin )




Neil Williams wrote:

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> On Wednesday 06 Nov 2002 8:24 pm, Neil Williams wrote:
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> > On Wednesday 06 Nov 2002 7:28 pm, Rick Timmis wrote:
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> >
> > > so far each users can do exactly as i intended with existing files in
> > > the folder. e.g staff 1 writes to file X then the permissions remain
> > > unchanged. However when staff 1 creates a new file it becomes readonly
> > > to all the other members of the group staff.
> > >
> > > Newly created files have the following persmissions
> > >
> > > user RW
> > > group R
> > > others R
> > >      
> > You need to work on the umask to set 664 instead of 644, umask of 113
> > instead of 133. I think it goes in .bash_profile but check man umask.
> >
> > (umask reduces the permissions from 777, so 777-113=664)
> >
> > (Although I've probably got it wrong somewhere.)
> >    
>
> Told you I probably had it wrong, the umask I have set on this RH machine is 
> 002 and new files are created 664, rw-rw-r-- perfect for your needs.
>
> Try man 2 umask - more informative than man umask alone.
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