Re: [gentoo-user] permissions for a common folder

[Matteo Pillon <matteo.pillon@gmail.com>]

Hi, 

On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 01:53:13PM +0200, Stefán István wrote:
> We have a file server, and there are a common directory for a group of a 
> users. I set this common folder's permission to 2775 and that results that a 
> newly created file or directory will have the same goup owner as the common 
> dir. But the problem is, that if someone creates a file or a directory in 
> this common folder, the permissions will be 644 or 755, and so the other 
> users in the same group can't write that file or directory, only if the 
> creator of the entry sets it manually to 664 or 775. Is there any way to tell 
> the Linux to automatically set the rights to 664 or 775 in this common 
> directory (and only in this)?

It depends on your setup, if you're using bash, you can subtitute cd
with a new function:

cd () {
 if ....; then
  umask 0002
 else
  umask 0022
 fi
 command cd $@
}

Bye.

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