Re: [Sheflug] Weird permissions problems

[Richard Stevenson <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 29 May 2002, Craig Andrews wrote:

> On Wednesday 29 May 2002 14:39, you exclaimed:
> > And Lo! The Great Prophet " Craig Andrews" uttered these words of wisdom...
> >
> > > So, question is, what happened to my group write permission??
> >
> > Checked your umask ?
> >
> > Chris...
>
> I have a directory which is owned by root:devel. I need to allow anyone in
> devel to be able to read and write to it, and for all new files to be created
> with permissions set to 664 (directories 775, of course).

Old BSD hack:  chown candrews:devel dirname; chmod 2775 dirname

touch a file in there now, and it'll have group devel.  As for the umask,
that's more difficult.  How about just using cvs instead?

Cheers

R

> This needs to be regardless of umask, seeing as some folk have 022 and some
> have 002.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Craig
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