Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Filesystem permissions

2008-07-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 04 July 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: > Hmm, good point. I will monitor the situation. > If there are any occurrences of wrong permissions, I think it will be > sufficient to make an if-clause before setting the umask but maybe it > proves unneccessary. I think what you really want in thi

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Filesystem permissions

2008-07-04 Thread Florian Philipp
On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 20:08:43 +0200 Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Freitag, 4. Juli 2008 schrieb Florian Philipp: > > On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 18:35:58 +0200 > > > > Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Friday 04 July 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: > > > > I've just set the umas

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Filesystem permissions

2008-07-04 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 4. Juli 2008 schrieb Florian Philipp: > On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 18:35:58 +0200 > > Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 04 July 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: > > > I've just set the umask 0007 in /etc/profile. With the rule that > > > every user has his own primary group (as

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Filesystem permissions

2008-07-04 Thread Florian Philipp
On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 18:35:58 +0200 Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 04 July 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: > > > I've just set the umask 0007 in /etc/profile. With the rule that > > every user has his own primary group (as it is default), this is > > sufficient for my needs. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Filesystem permissions

2008-07-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 04 July 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: > I've just set the umask 0007 in /etc/profile. With the rule that > every user has his own primary group (as it is default), this is > sufficient for my needs. Hmmm. That gives permissions: rw-rw on every single new file created by every singl

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Filesystem permissions

2008-07-04 Thread Florian Philipp
On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 16:24:52 +0200 Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 03 July 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: > > > You want to set the setgid bit on the containing directory and > > > chgrp that directory to the group involved. > > > > Argh, of course! > > I even read this stuff u

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Filesystem permissions

2008-07-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 03 July 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: > > You want to set the setgid bit on the containing directory and > > chgrp that directory to the group involved. > > Argh, of course! > I even read this stuff up this morning but I overlooked the > paragraph! In all likely-hood you will want to se

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Filesystem permissions

2008-07-04 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 4. Juli 2008 schrieb Dirk Heinrichs: > You can later add permissions for other users or groups by using ACLs, see > man pages of setfacl and getfacl. ...given that you have compiled your filesystem modules with ACL support. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Filesystem permissions

2008-07-04 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 3. Juli 2008 schrieb Florian Philipp: > Then there might be a common folder for all users in a specific group > as a simple way of sharing files. These shall be accessible by every > user in the group but by none else, so for the user phil_fl and the > group users: chown phil_fl:use

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Filesystem permissions

2008-07-03 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 17:40:01 +0200 Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi list! > > I'm a bit dissatisfied with the way umask and filesystem permissions > work and I'd like to know if a) this is due to misunderstanding on my > part and/or b) there is a clean workaround I'm unaware of. >

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Filesystem permissions

2008-07-03 Thread Florian Philipp
On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 17:52:29 +0200 Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 03 July 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: > > Hi list! > > > > I'm a bit dissatisfied with the way umask and filesystem permissions > > work and I'd like to know if a) this is due to misunderstanding on > > my part

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Filesystem permissions

2008-07-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 03 July 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: > Hi list! > > I'm a bit dissatisfied with the way umask and filesystem permissions > work and I'd like to know if a) this is due to misunderstanding on my > part and/or b) there is a clean workaround I'm unaware of. > > Let's say I have a system wit

[gentoo-user] OT: Filesystem permissions

2008-07-03 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi list! I'm a bit dissatisfied with the way umask and filesystem permissions work and I'd like to know if a) this is due to misunderstanding on my part and/or b) there is a clean workaround I'm unaware of. Let's say I have a system with various users working on some sensible data. Therefore I ha