That would be great if someone knew and could tell us how to set default permissions on a specific directory.
The info that has been given here has been a help though, so thanks everyone for helping me out! Michael Turcotte Information Systems City of North Bay 200 McIntyre St. E PO Box 360 North Bay, Ontario P1B 8H8 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cityofnorthbay.ca > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:linux-newbie- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ray Olszewski > Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 10:51 AM > To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org > Subject: RE: Simple script to set permissions on folders daily - write > script and cron it? > > At 09:31 AM 3/29/2005 -0500, Mike Turcotte wrote: > >I am fairly new to the linux scene, and I am currently using Gentoo > >Linux. How exactly do I go about setting a global default umask value to > >set 777 permissions on a particular folder and its contents? > [...] > > You don't. That's not how umask works. Instead, it sets default > permissions > for *all* files saved by a particular account (userid). > > If you want to make this change for all userids (or all except root), do > it > in some file that sets the environment globally. For the bash shell, this > is probably /etc/profile (that's the standard one, and I imagine Gentoo > follows the standard). For example, my /etc/profile file contains this > line: > > umask 022 > > A umask is the (octal) inverse of permissions, so this sets the default > permissions to 755. For a default of 777, set the umask to 000. > > If you want to make the change for specific accounts (userids), put a line > to reset the umash in that account's individual configuration file. This > varies in name a bitr more than systemwide files, but ones to look for are > (in the account's home directory) .profile, .bash_profile, or .bashrc (use > "ls -a" to display filenames that begin with a .). > > I don't know of a way to set default permissions for a specific directory > only, which is why I didn't discourage Eve from taking the approach she > described for her problem. Perhaps someone else does, though ... we'll > have > to wait and see. > > > > - > 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 - 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
