--- Richard Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Tyler,
>
> This didn't quite work.
Sorry, I missed a couple of things. Permissions can be tricky, even if
you work with them a lot.
>
> When I did this, non-root users could not create files in the
> subdirectories; the permissions looked like: drwxr-xr--.
Yup, my mistake. I should have said '775' instead of '2754'.
> I changed
> the 2754 to 2774, so that the permissions looked like: drwxrwxr--. I
> then did everything again. Unfortunately, files created by non-root
> users still had permissions that looked like: -rw-r--r--.
This is a umask problem. A user's 'umask' is going to dictacte how new
files and directories are created. For instance, a umask of '022' means
that a new file will be created with '644' permisions, and a new
directory will be '755' ( -rw-r--r-- and drwxr-xr-x, respectively).
What you want is each user to have a umask of 002, so that when they
create new files, the group has write permission.
> I suppose that I could run a crontab every five minutes to do chmod
> u+w on
> every file, but that seems... inelegant. :-p
Yes, very inelegant, and a little incorrect. :-) If you were going to
use cron like this (not recommended, of course), you'd need to do a
'chmod g+w' not 'chmod u+w'. The user already has write permissions -
you're trying to add group write permissions.
Try this as root:
chgrp -R webgroup /var/web
chmod 775 /var/web
chmod g+s /var/web
find /var/web -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \;
find /var/web -type d -exec chmod g+s {} \;
Then, in each users' .profile, add:
umask 002
The additional 'chmod' should set the setgid bit for each directory.
The umask will force new files to be created with 'g+w', which is what
you want.
-Tyler
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