On Friday 21 October 2005 17:49, James D. Parra wrote:
What can I do to make the all new files inherit 777 perm's and/or have all new files created inherit a specific group? Both users need to be able to completely interact with files regardless who creates them.
Files are created according to what "umask" is set to, "man umask" and....
Thanks Sid. Use umask 000 on the dir and all new files created get rw-rw-rw- perm's, but after the user logs out and back in all subsequent files get rw-r--r-- perm's. How do you make the umask setting permanent?
Thank you,
~James HI James,
The way to do this is to put the setting umask 000 in the users initialization file. The .bashrc for example. I have not seen the start of this thread so I don't know the reasoning behind this. Just be aware that this is a huge security hole as it allows all users to modify this users files. Phil