At 3:42 PM -0500 3/18/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >In a message dated 18-Mar-02 7:36:55 PM GMT Standard Time, >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >>You may want to look into useradd and /etc/skel on a Linux system. It >> has everything you are trying to accomplish handled automatically >> by using the standard Linux user creation techniques. No need to >> re-implement the wheel. :) >> > > >That's just it ... we didn't want to have to create whole new user >accounts for everybody. Just a small directory of files for a demo >of our web-app. > >I'd be happy if all the apps weren't apache:apache ... but I was >thinking there had to be a better solution than `chown nobody:nobody >$directory -R` (just an example !!)
To change default file permissions of newly created files perldoc -f umask To change ownership of a file without a fork* perldoc -f chown To change permissions of a file without a fork* perldoc -f chmod To create directories without a fork* perldoc -f mkdir * on most *nix based systems Rob -- When I used a Mac, they laughed because I had no command prompt. When I used Linux, they laughed because I had no GUI.
