On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 12:12:29PM +0100, R?mi Letot wrote: > I'm trying to setup a shared disk space with NFS. Till then, no > problem. But I want that people belonging to a specific group can > write to it, and modify every file in it. > > So I made the exported directory belong to the group, put the sticky > bit on it, so every file created in it belongs to the group. No > problem. But the permissions on newly created files are g+r, and I > need g+rw so that everyone belonging to the group can manipulate those > files without problem.
People creating new files in group-writeable locations should use 'umask 2' first. If you have a one-group-per-user setup (as is standard on Debian systems), then they can just set 'umask 2' all the time safely. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
