Shaun Jackman <sjack...@bcgsc.ca> writes: > My use case is working in a directory shared amongst a group of users. > My umask is 022. I run > mkdir -pm775 project/subproject > and I'd like both project and project/subproject to be group-writable.
If the filesystem supports ACLs then you can add a default ACL to the project directory with `setfacl -m d:g::rwx'. This will arrange to grant group write access by default to all newly created files/directories in that directory. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."