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Date:      Fri, 28 May 1999 10:09:26 -0500 (EST)
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net>
To:        Nelson <rjn103s@mgr3.k12.mo.us>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: (adduser and changing defualt perms on homes) or (chmod -R in  cron)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.990528100537.9491L-100000@cygnus.rush.net>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990528090853.00802390@mgr3s1.mg>

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On Fri, 28 May 1999, Nelson wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> I am wanting to have user home dirs to be defualt to perm 0750 and I have
> examined the adduser script but am unsure what to modify to get the desired
> results here.
> 
> I think I need modify the sub home_create in the adduser but not for sure.
> 
> I have considered a crontab that will do a chmod -R 750 /usr/home/* to
> ensure the desired results by default.

You'll soon have your users at your door with pitchforks and torches
if you do that.

on line 931 of my adduser script i have this:
 
       if (!mkdir("$homedir", 0755)) {

i'm guessing that if you modify that it'll work.

(change the 755 to 750)

-Alfred



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