What do I need to change the 022 setting to be for -rwxrwx--- ? "John Hardcastle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > So the default file permissions don't do what you want. > $ umask > Read the manual page for the umask command, > $ man umask > As root, change the umask in /etc/profile to reflect the permissions you > want. > # vi /etc/profile > Then have all users logout and login again. Their $HOME/.bashrc will > read /etc/profile and their umask will reflect your changes. > > John > > On 02/18/04 10:12, Hhayes wrote: > > >I have a Debian box running as a file server on a network with 50 users. So > > > >far it works great except for the user/file permissions. I can go into a > > > >directory and set the owner and group permissions to read/write on all > > > >files in the directory and that works fine. Then as soon as one of the > > > >users opens a file and saves it, the permissions on that file change to read > > > >only for the group permissions and changes the owner to the user that just > > > >saved the file, resulting in a file that no other users can write to. Has > > > >anyone ever seen this before? > > > > > > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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