On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Tim Nelson <tnel...@rockbochs.com> wrote: > Greetings all- > > I have a system running CentOS 5.5 x86_64. It's serving NFS for several > 'frontend' boxes in a web application setup. All data is stored in specific > dir but written by different users. When the webapp attempts to read this > information, it may or may not have permissions to this data. What I'd like > to do is set 'default permissions' on the data storage directory (lets call > this /var/appdata) so that any file or directory created under this is > assigned a default set of permissions, and if possible, ownership. > > I've looked at and tested umask but it only seems to allow/disallow specific > permissions, not force permissions. Am I missing something? How can I force > all files/dirs created under a specific directory to have the permissions > (and ownership if possible) that I specify? > > Thanks!
The SUID on the directory is what you need. http://kurt.www.pinboard.com/techwritings/d83/ _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
