On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 16:50, Klaus Ade Johnstad wrote: > I have 60-70 users on my system, all have been added with the useradd -m > command, which I realize now made them belong to the same group 'users', > had I used the command adduser instead then they would have ended up > belongig to individual groups, which is what I need... > > My problem commes from the fact that the users want to have a dirctory > that they all can read/write in, this I can achieve if I make them all > belong to individual groups, and then make this group a member of another > group that actually owns this shared directory, and then change the umask > to 002 of every user, and possibly put a 3770 on this shared dierectory.
If they are all in group users, why not just chown a directory to group users and set the groups read, write and execute bits? mkdir /var/sharedspace chgroup users /var/sharedspace chmod g+rwx /var/sharedspace > I can to all of this by hand, but I wonder if anyone possibly knows of a > script that could help me out a bit, otherwise I'll have to use the whole > night. Change the umasks of every user? How about changing /etc/profile? Don't spend all night doing it. Such scripts are normally very simple. If you post a very specific question to the list, I'm sure we can write a script to the list. For example. Every user on the system is in the /home directory. In all their home directories is a file .bashrc and in that file is a line umask 022. I want to change every occurance of that line in those files to read umask 002. How to I do that easily with a script? For which the answer is for dir in /home/*; do cat $dir/.bashrc | sed -e 's/umask 022/umask 002/g' > /tmp/user.temp; cp /tmp/user.temp $dir/.bashrc; done Crispin Wellington -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
