Set group on files as they are created

gatsby · 02-25-2008, 04:30 PM

This is a file permissions question. I think umask fits in here somewhere, but I am not quite sure how.

Every time I FTP a file to my Linux machine, I end up overwriting the file permissions for the previous copy. I want my file settings to always be 664 in this directory. I also want the group ownership to always be defined as my group "testergroup". Does anyone know how I can accomplish this?

Thanks in advance.

pixellany · 02-25-2008, 05:53 PM

umask affects only permissions.

I just ran some tests. It seems that new files in a directory are created using the user's initial login group. I did this by creating a new user with only one group assigned. New directories or files created by that user all have that group assigned.

When a user is in multiple groups, I have not figured out how to change which is the "initial login group"----AHA--found it!!! change the group ID in /etc/passwd. (Group IDs can be found in /etc/group)