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On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 28 March 2007, Jorge Almeida wrote: |
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>> I would like the default permissions for directories created by a |
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>> particular user to be 1775. Is there some way to achieve this? I |
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>> think umask doesn't deal with the sticky bit. |
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> I did a few simple tests here, I also find that umask doesn't like |
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> setting sticky and {s,g}uid. Maybe you can achieve the same result with |
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> acls? |
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Probably, but I know nothing of acls. Probably an overkill, too. |
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> What's the reason you want to set the sticky bit for thaqt user? With |
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> some more info, maybe we can come up with an alternative |
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Just to allow users of a certain group to write to common directories |
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(not always the same, and which might be created by anyone of those |
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users) and avoid deleting each other's files. |
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> Incidentally, even if we persuade umask to set the sticky bit on dirs, |
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> it's probably not what you want, as it'll make all files sticky as well |
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Yes, but isn't that more or less harmless? |
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Maybe I should cook up some script to do it only on directories, but it |
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would be nicer if it worked out of the unix box... |
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Thanks, |
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Jorge |
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