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http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Security-HOWTO/file-security.html section 5.1 "Normally the umask is set in /etc/profile, so it applies to all users on the system." hope this helps On 11/16/06, Simon Williams <systemparadox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > exetmp03 wrote: > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > >> [mailto:list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Simon Williams > >> Sent: 16 November 2006 13:35 > >> To: list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > >> Subject: [LUG] Force permissions > >> > >> > >> Hello everyone. > >> > >> I've been doing this with samba options for a while, but now > >> that more > >> people are logging directly into the server and/or using Linux it has > >> become more of an issue. > >> > >> Quite simply, I've got a shared directory which everyone can use and > >> write to. Through my research on this some time ago I found > >> that I can > >> set an 'inherit group' attrib by using SetGID on the dirs. > >> > >> Out of interest, what does setUID on a dir do? I've done some > >> tests, but > >> haven't noticed any difference. > >> > >> Anyway, if a user sets their umask to 002, it seems that all files > >> become group writable, no matter what the permissions of the > >> parent dir > >> are. This isn't really desirable. > >> > >> So, what I'm looking for is some way of forcing the > >> permissions of files > >> created in the shared dir to be group writable. > >> > >> What is the conventional way of handling group write-ability > >> for shared > >> dirs? They can't seriously expect people to manually chmod > >> all created > >> files. > >> > >> I'm surprised google hasn't been very helpful on this one. Maybe I'm > >> thinking about this all wrong. > >> > >> Thanks in advance > > > >> Simon > > > > If I remember right all permissions are set within the [share] > > definition using umasks and that the Unix perms are irrelevant > > > > After that it should just work. > > It's all setup fine with samba. But what about people who are not using > samba? e.g. direct shells (ssh) or nfs or ftp? > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html