[ale] Umask by directory?

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ACLs

I assisted in writing a Howto smilar to what you need on
wiki.opnsuse.org  (iirc).

Just search for acl or acls.

Greg


On 7/26/07, John Wells <jb at sourceillustrated.com> wrote:
> 'lo guys....long time, no post ;)
>
> Anyone know of a way to configure a umask on a per directory basis?
>
> In other words, I'd like to have my users create files normally as 744,
> hence a umask of 0022. However, in a certain directory shared by the group,
> I'd like files to be created with 774, so that the group can write to them
> without having to manually chmod them.
>
> setgid on the directory gets my half way there, in that files in the
> directory are always set to be owned by the group. However, my users'
> default umasks (0022) are still used, so the group can only read those
> files, no write.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks!
> John
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