(disclaimer: If it sounds like I'm explaining things to a five-year-old, that's because I'm lost, not because I think you are)
Quoting Jos Lemmerling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, 25 Dec 2003, Dan Zlotnikov wrote: > > > > The default umask can be set in the users profile > > > (/home/user1/.bash_profile) with the line "umask 002". > > > > Pardon me if I'm confused, but does that mean that any user can change the > > > default umask at will? > > Yes, that's correct. It's also possible to change the umask of all users > in /etc/profile . I just checked the possibility to apply a umask to a > single directory, but it doesn't seem to be possible (at least not on a > ext2/3 filesystem. That's a tad unfortunate. The problem I'm having is as follows: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: vim Foo (write some text) I didn't want to bother with new groups, so... [EMAIL PROTECTED]: chmod 777 Foo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: su bar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: vim /home/foo/Foo Which works just fine, as expected. umask 002 will set 775 on *all* of that user's files, not just the ones in /home/everyone/ > I came accross another option in the man-page: > If the directory /home/everyone is mounted on a seperate partition, the > option "grpid" can be used to avoid the use of the SST-bits. Now *that* is elegant. Hell, I'd move the directory to a different partition, just so I could use this :) > > Not to mention, this will apply to all of that user's files, not just the > ones > > in /home/everyone/ > > Should that be a problem then? On my (Debian) systems the default group on > newly created files is the group of the user itself, so that doesn't make > any difference. Obviously it's another story when the default group isn't > its own usergroup. Ah. Point. So does that mean the user would still have to manually change the group of every file in /home/everyone/ to "everyone"? > > What other option do you recommend then? A login script that would sudo everything in /home/everyone/ to 775 whenever one of the users in said group logged in. Would that create problems with temporarily locked files, though? Dan ---------------------------------------- This mail sent through www.mywaterloo.ca - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
