Re: permissions and ownership question

[Kara Pritchard <kara@luci.org>]

On 31 Jul 2002, Jason Smith wrote:

> I am wanting all the files and directories created under one directory
> to have the same permissions and ownership.  As it works right now
> whenever I create a directory or file it creates it with 664 permissions
> and jason:jason for user and group.  What I'm wanting is for all files
> and directories, only in this directory, to be created with a
> permissions mask of 644 and <user>:users for the user and group
> permissions.  Is this possible?

Given that <user> is the user creating the file, 

chgrp users newdir/

chmod 644 newdir/

chmod +s newdir/

That will make every file created under newdir 644 and the group set to 
"users".

Hope that's what you're looking for. It's referred to as the "sticky bit".

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