At 04:11 PM 12/9/2004 -0500, Eve Atley wrote:
First question... We have people SSHing into our Linux box from overseas (India to US, company access only). But files that are uploaded from these people become read-only to anyone else accessing them. We *require* that they be readable/writable by this side of the pond (US). How can I set this to occur? Otherwise, this method of transferring files will *not* work for us, and perhaps someone can point me to another solution.
So you want an uploaded file to be mode 777, writable (and executable, if you really mean 777, not 666) by any user on the system? OK. Change the account's umask, in ./.profile, or ./.bashrc, or whatever user-specific file is appropriate to your setup. (Or make the corresponding change in a systemwide file, like /etc/profile or /etc/bash.bashrc or whatever ... the specifics vary a bit from one distro to another, and even there I am assuming your site uses bash). Usually the umask is 022, which generates permissions 755; you want it to be 000.
Or, it may depend on how these usees are trensferring files after they ssh in, something you don't actually mention. If we are discussing scp transfers, it might be easier to have the users use the -p flag when they do the transfers, so the transferred file will keep the permissions it had on its source system (but I don't know that they are mode 777 either).
Second question... How can I recursively set all files/directories to 777? Chmod -R 777 *.* ... Didn't seem to hit everything.
Since the relevant command is "chmod", not "Chmod" (case counts in Linux/Unix commands), I'm surprised you hit *anything* with the command as written. Your use of "all" is also a bit ambiguous .. but if you want to chmod all the files in or below the PWD to mode 777, you'll need this command:
chmod -R 777 ./*
(Even this will not chmod **all** files, because because by convention almost all Linux/Unix commands treat files that begin with a dot character as special, so standard wildcards (*) will not match them. So this command will chmod files with names like filename and filename.txt, but not one with names like .filename . I don't know a general way to include such files.)
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