[LUG] Permission Trouble Again

[Rick Timmis <rick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Here's a thing.

I had some trouble a while ago, users of the system were creating files 
with rw-r-r permission and Owner <userid> Group USERS. What was required 
was rw-rw-r permissions for file created in the shared directory. It 
transpired that the .bash_profile had a line umask 0000 I hashed this 
out and made sure that the .bash_rc file contained the line umask 002. 
Thinking that this was the matter dealt with I left it.


Well it's reared its ugly head again. If when using Konqueror I create a 
new file in the shared directory the new file gets rw-r-r persmission 
Instead of the permissions set by the users umask setting. on top of 
this the file is given a creation date of 14 July 2000 ( Scratches head 
in amazement).

Any idea why Konqueror should set rw-r-r permissions with 14 July 2000 
creation date, which overrules the under lying bash_profile settings of 
the user ?? - Further to this it seems Konqeuror creates files with  the 
following creation dates and times

Illustrator files - 29-08-2001 10.33 am
HTML file       - 09-05-2000 12:37 am
TXT Files         - 14-07-2000 12:19 am

Very Weird.

Next up Open Office, openoffice creates files with the following rw-rw-r 
permissions, but instead of assigning Owner <userid> Group USER it 
assigns the files Owner <userid>  Group <userid>, Even though the GID 
bit is set in the parent directory. thus anyone creating new OO files in 
the shared directory actually creates them Writeable by themselves only. 
(Further Confusion )

As stated bash-rc dictates umask 002 which should give rw-rw-r, When I 
touch a file it creates it with the correct permissions. At this point I 
put my head in my hands and started compose mail

Anyone got any ideas please

Thansks Rick


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Regards and Best wishes

Rick Timmis
rick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I.T Manager

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