Hello linux gurus, I hope you can assist me on this. A little background info first: I currently run a web server on Redhat 7.1, it's web documents directory is /www/. I do all of my work on a windows machine, using Samba to access the linux box.

When I create a new file on the windows box and drop it into the /www/ directory, it is assigned a 744 permission, which blocks people on the internet from accessing the file (403 forbidden) for some reason, it works fine with 755. So, everytime I add a file, I have to "chmod -R /www/" the whole directory. Im sure there is a way to automatically set all new files on the server, or just that directory, to a 755 permission, but I have no idea how.

How do I make a folder (/www/) automatically set all files added to it to 755 permission?

-Thanks

check into the 'umask' command. It shold do exactly what you want

Do you know of any good websites or forums where I can obtain information on umask?

No I don't know of any sites but it pretty much works like this if I understand correctly.

The command format would be something like.

umask 022 /home/httpd

The 022 is the permission settings. It is derived from the subtracted value of permissions that you would want in chmod.

example.

777 - Beginning value.
-755 - Permisions that you want
------
022 - your settings for umask.

I am sure there is a better way to explain it, but that was the best I could do.