[ale] Help with chmod

Jonathan Glass jonathan.glass at ibb.gatech.edu
Fri Sep 12 11:22:26 EDT 2003


Can you set a UMASK on a given directory?

Jonathan

On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 11:27, Rick Huebner wrote:
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> 	From: 	ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] 
> 	Sent:	Friday, September 12, 2003 11:22 AM
> 	To:	Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> 	Subject:	[ale] Help with chmod
> 
> 	I've been trying to setup a directory /var/www/html/foodir so that
> any new files created(usually by ftp) have 774 permissions.  I set the owner
> to foo and the group to foogroup.  When foo ftp's a file into foodir, it
> ends up 644.  I set umask for foo to 003 and chmod -R g+s foodir to no
> avail.  I'm missing something here and can't find it..sigh
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