Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3996 mails)

[Louis Richards <louis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Randall R Schulz wrote:

> <SNIP>
>
> But not everything is possible.
>
> The way I understood the request, Chris wants to have files that get 
> created within a specific directory or set of directories to reflect a 
> umask independent of that in effect in the process that does the 
> creation. He's not trying to control each user's umask. Nor can he, of 
> course--the best that can be done is to control the default or initial 
> value, as your suggestion addresses.
>
> I know of no way to make happen what Chris wants.
>
> ...
>
> Actually, he said this was a separate file system. If the permissions 
> required are lax, perhaps using a FAT file system would produce the 
> desired results, or something close to them.
>
>  
ACLs will do what he wants. Check out appendix B in the Administration 
Guide (assuming 9.1 here).

From the parent directory type ...

# setfacl -d -m group:yourgroup:rwx yourdirectory

HTH
Louis