Hi Guys,

I have given permission chmod -R 777 /abc/xyz. This Path is public so every one can create and delete the files. I am not able give inherent permission to this path. Say user1 created directory under /abc/xyz/doc only user1 can have full permission but group and others getting read and execute permissions. I have to give full permission to all users no matter who creates directory. Suppose user2 create directory under /abc/xyz/fin-doc. It should create with full permissions. Please advice your tips.

Thanks,
Asteroid Meteor

The thing you are asking would let a user delete the directories/files of other users.

Anyway it is done by setting 'umask' to value which lets this.

And you set the umask before the user creates a file/directory. You have to make/ensure that a user gets this value.

Hi Veerain,

When i enable umask to 7000 it would be effect to all other directories also . I want to set it only under /abc/xyz directories only. Rest all directories should remain default umask value. Is it possible ?

For such a specific requirement, I might create a small shell script say _md_ to do mkdir followed by chmod thus:

if $# -eq 1 then proceed else give usage message and quit
mkdir /abc/xyx/$1
chmod +777 /abc/xyz/$1
quit

I might place it in /etc/profile so that it can be used by ALL logins.

OK
PS: This is pseudo code and so I didn't use the code tag.

You can setup a special session for your users in which only this umask value is set.

I am sharing above file systems using samba share so windows users are going access. Please help