Setting initial file permissions
 

Hi everyone

I have just set up a fedora core 3 server and I need users of a group to be hable read and write access within certain directories. How can I set the initial permissions to eg. 770, so that all new files created by a group member will be set to 770 without using the command chmod ?

regards

georges

your looking for umask

Hey there,

you could either add it to /etc/skel/.bash_profile or edit /etc/profile and put the following like

umask u=rwx,g=rwx,o=

Regards

RE initial files permissions
 

Thanks

But if i set umask in /etc/profile will it not change the permission for all the new files. I want only to set this permission for certain folders

I have the same issue. I have a group of users who share responsibility for files in some directories. A file created by one user in those directories should be writeable to the others in the group. Is there no way to make this happen without the user running chmod each time? I have set the sgid bit on the directory so that all files created in the directory are owned by the admin group, but that group still only has r-- rights by default.

I'm getting the feeling that this is simply not a solvable problem in Linux. (Bar running a chmod script in root's cron or something.)

If umask is a user setting, then maybe you could change the umask temporarily while doing this admin work with a script, say "webadm -enable" and "webadm -disable", so you get the right rights while working with the relevant files?