Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2156 mails)

[Kurt Wall <kwall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 10 August 2008 00:50:22 John wrote:
> Hi
>
> In SuSE 10.3, is there any way to set the default permissions for new
> files added into a directory?

For file permissions and depending on how they are added, the 
umask might do the trick. File ownership is trickier.

> Currently, to maintain consistency, I have to wake the server up and
> change files added to a specific directory with 'chown root:users *'.
> Can this be automated?

Sure. A cron job.

Kurt
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