RE: File Permissions


Subject: RE: File Permissions
From: Barry Sparenborg (sparenborgb@hadadycorp.com)
Date: Mon Jul 30 2001 - 13:46:14 MDT


Thanks,

"UMASK" That's the command I was looking for! Now all I have to do is
figure out how to use it.

Thanks,

Barry.

        -----Original Message-----
        From: Sak [SMTP:sak@nwlink.com]
        Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 2:42 PM
        To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
        Subject: Re: File Permissions

        On Monday 30 July 2001 05:51, you wrote:
> Thanks but,
>
> Each time a user creates a file in my public directory the
permissions on
> the file do not allow any other users to access the file. I have
the
> rights of the folder set to allow all valid user and group read
write and
> execute permissions. When I look at the new rights on the file a
created
> by a user, it is set to owner has the only rights to the file. I
have to
> run chmod each time a new file is created so other users in that
group can
> use the file. That's a real pain. What can be done to ease my
pains.

        This makes sense. Each user can have different permission bits set
for files
        and directories that they create. What you're looking for now is
the 'umask'
        command. Depending on how your system is setup, which shell you've
decided
        to use, etc., you can set the umask variable in each individual
user's
        .profile file. I'm not a hundred percent certain how this works,
but it uses
        a 3 digit octal number like chmod. It's value is subtracted from
777 for
        directories or 666 for files. Thus umask 002 yields files with
permissions
        set to 664 which is the same as rw-rw-r-- when creating new files
with the
        shell.

        Good luck,
        --
        Sak.



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