On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 10:58, Jianping Zhu wrote: > On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 10:58:28AM -0500, Bret Hughes wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 09:42, Esler, Joel Contractor wrote: > > > Does the directory have a executable bit set on it for the group? > > > > > > J > > > > > > > IIRC that will keep group ownership the same as the dir but not affect > > the umask. You probably will need to open up the umask if you want the > > file to be group writable. > > > > Bret > Thank you for your reply > i am very new to linux, how can i "open up" the umask? >
The default umask is set in /etc/bashrc. exactly what logic is used debends on the version but typically any non system users (uid>99 on my rh7.3 box) gets a umask of 002 this means files created cannot have the others writable bit set. 022 says not to allow group or others writable. If, as in your orig post the users under consideration have th umask set to 022 then either the default has been changed ( /etc/bashrc) or the usmask is explicitly being set somewhere else. Most likely ~/.bashrc ( ~ = users home dir). the umask command will tell you what the umask is and man bash will give you lots of info about the umask. info chmod is not a bad place to start reading about file permissions. There is a *File Permissions link in the info page. HTH Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
