Hello mr. John, On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 2:54 PM, John Almberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The following permissions problem has me stumped: > > 1. User A uploads a file (using ftp) to the server, into a directory called > 'data' owned by user B. Permissions on directory set to allow this, like > this: > drwxrwxr-x 2 user_b user_b 512 Oct 7 08:40 data > > 2. A cron job, run by user B, then processes the file > > 3. When the processing is complete, the cron job needs to delete the file > from the server > > 4. however, after upload, the file has the ownership A:B (i.e, owned by A, > group B) with permissions -rw-r--r--. So B does not have permission to > delete the file. > -rw-r--r-- 1 user_a user_b 154879 Oct 7 08:40 data_file.csv > > The ftp user can manually change the permissions on the file to -rw-rw-r--, > but I do not want to depend on the user remembering to change permissions. > If he forgets, the cronjob will process the file over and over again. I need > the server to handle this, so it gets done correctly 100% of the time. > > B does not have sufficient permissions to delete the file or change it's > permissions. The only thing I can think of is to have ANOTHER cron job, run > by A, run every few minutes to check for the existence of a file, and change > the permissions so B can delete it. But this smells like a kludge to me. > > Is there a correct way to handle this? For instance, is there something I > can set in A's profile, so when he uploads a file, the group permission is > set to rw? That would be a nice clean way to do it, but I can't find > anything like that. > > Any help, much appreciated. > > -- John Depends on what ftp daemon you use. All the ftp server programs have a way to enforce the umask. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umask for a better understanding to what umask is. all the best, v > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > [EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
