On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Schlomo Schapiro wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I actually also need such a feature, but for a different reason:
>
> On the network server I am putting files into all kind of directories, but
> in each dir the files should have a different umask/gid, because some dirs
> are public and others are not and yet others are for the web server etc.
>
> Just now I put the files and chmod/chown them all the time. If I could set
> up a dir to create files with a certain umask/gid then I could work as
> user and the permissions and ownerships would come automatically.
I think that in that case permissions on the directories should take
care of the privacy problem (e.g., if only www has any permissions to the
/var/www directory, who cares about the permissions of the files inside?).
The gid can be solved by setting the setgid bit on the directories
in question.
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