Hello all.

I'm having some minor trouble and I wanted to know if you guys know how to solve this.

Four years ago, I asked you about write permissions. Thanks to your help, I solved that problem. Here is the thread: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-fstab-831446/

In short, I have a multiuser setup, and I had some ext4 shared partitions. I wanted for both users to be possible to read or write anything the other users creates, without having to constantly change permissions via Root. So we worked around a way to do that, by assigning that partition a common Group.

But there's some left over inconvenience. It turns out that if you're using some application, like aMule or Transmission, and you download a file, the file gets created with no writing permission for the group. I mean, the program respects the owner and group, but does not respect the umask settings in /etc/profile configuration.

My distro is Debian Sid. Any ideas on how to proceed?

Thank you in advance!

ACLs probably. Check the ACL doc, search LQ for "setfacl" examples, mount your partition with ACL support, see if you can figure it out and if you can't post what you've tried.

Thanks unSpawn!!

This problem is solved, apparently. This is the command I used.

It gives RWX permissions to the Group Partitions, and gives only READ permissions to Others.

What's odd about the command is the I need to repeat instruction adding the DEFAULT switch. (d:g:GROUP:PERMISSIONS). Why do you think that is? I don't know anything about ACL, so I have no idea.

Anyway, thanks for the help!

LQ rocks!

PS: if anyone has the same issue, remember that I had to do this before: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-fstab-831446/

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Thanks for confirming & posting back your solution, much appreciated.