New folder permissions

[Derrick Ryalls]

On 5/12/06, Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org> wrote:
> "Derrick Ryalls" <ryallsd at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On 5/12/06, Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org> wrote:
>
> >> There are a lot of ways to do this, but the one I would recommend is
> >> to change the main folder to be owned by a group that you, your wife,
> >> and the uid running the thumbnail script all are members of --
> >> probably by creating a new group for the purpose.  Then if you set
> >> your wife's umask to 002, directories she creates will be available to
> >> you and any other members of the group.
> >>
> >
> > Would I change the umask on the webserver or on her desktop?  If on
> > the desktop, then how does this work when she is booted into Windows?
> > I do like the idea of this solution, but she doesn't even like shell
> > access so .bashrc wouldn't be executed.  Is there a way to set umask
> > functionality somewhere else?
> >
>
> I think you need to configure Samba directly for this.
> I suspect "create mask = 0775" would do it.
>
>

Thanks, I didn't even know about that option.  I will try that out
when I get home.