How can I define permissions on a /home/user dir _before_ creating it with adduser
 

Hi

I am setting up an apache server with /~user access on RH9, and am trying to create the user directories with the appropriate permissions in place.

I have found the /etc/skel dir and found setting the public_html in there to 755(or whatever) makes the /home/user/public_html to 755 as well.

I would like to know how I can set the /home/user dir to have 711 permission when it is created with the adduser command. setting the /etc/skel to 711 doesn't work : (

Thanks in advance

Skunkburner

Isn't it possible to make the directory and then set it add the user?

OR

I suppose it could be easily done afterwards....

I guess one way of doing it would be

useradd <blahblahblah> -d <directory> <blahblahblah>;mkdir <directory>;chmod 711 <directory>

If you popped that into a shell script with some variables, it would happen almost instantly, but I think if you created the directory before you added the users with those perms, useradd might complain... well it would on hpux anyways...

Cyber

Edit the adduser command so that it sets new user directories to what you want

liam@loki:~$ su -
Password:
loki:~# vi `which adduser`

There is a line like this -
$config{"dir_mode"} = "0755";

if you set it to
$config{"dir_mode"} = "0711";

Then you'll be sweet.

Hi Liam

OK I followed your explaination until just after vi 'which adduser'
adduser is an ELF executable and only shows up as garbage in vi.
I tried using the vi command :!xxd which converted it to hex,
but I still couldn't see anything like $config{"dir_mode"} = "0711";

what am I doing wrong?

Thanks for the help but I've just worked it out.

I needed to add the line 'umask 066' to /etc/login.defs and the /home/user dir was created with the appropriate permissions.

Must be a distro drifference; adduser under debian is a perl script!