From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 9 09:52:17 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D853037B405 for ; Fri, 9 May 2003 09:52:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cordis.lu (mail.cordis.lu [212.190.217.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 284E843FAF for ; Fri, 9 May 2003 09:52:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from a.carter@cordis.lu) Received: from mailsvr.intrasoft.lu (mail.intrasoft.lu [212.190.217.251]) by mail.cordis.lu (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h49H5O36009817; Fri, 9 May 2003 19:05:24 +0200 Received: by mail.intrasoft.lu with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2656.59) id ; Fri, 9 May 2003 18:48:27 +0200 Received: from 212.190.217.170 ([212.190.217.170]) by mailsvr.intrasoft.lu with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2656.59) id JS23CW89; Fri, 9 May 2003 18:48:21 +0200 From: CARTER Anthony To: Paul Lathrop , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Organization: Intrasoft Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 18:53:03 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200305091853.03432.a.carter@intrasoft.lu> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-131.9 required=4.2 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_KMAIL,USER_IN_WHITELIST version=2.53 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.53 (1.174.2.15-2003-03-30-exp) Subject: Re: Simple / Stupid File Permissions Question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 16:52:18 -0000 I guess UFS doesn't support inherited from directory permissions...Anyone? Anthony On Friday 09 May 2003 18:39, Paul Lathrop wrote: > I have a simple/stupid question regarding permissions. > > What I would like is the following: I have a directory called group_dir > that I would like all members of a group to be able to work in. > However, I find that whenever someone creates a file in that directory, > it is not set group writable. I know the user's umask setting affects > this, but I don't want to change that - then ALL their files would come > out group writable. Basically, I want all files in group_dir to be > readable and writable by group members by default, including newly > created files. Is there a way to do this? I thought up a kludge to use > cron to periodically run chmod -R... but that is so ugly I don't really > want to do it that way. > > Thanks for your assistance, > > Paul D. Lathrop > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"