Simple / Stupid File Permissions Question

[CARTER Anthony]

I guess UFS doesn't support inherited from directory permissions...Anyone?

Anthony

On Friday 09 May 2003 18:39, Paul Lathrop wrote:
> I have a simple/stupid question regarding permissions.
>
> What I would like is the following: I have a directory called group_dir
> that I would like all members of a group to be able to work in.
> However, I find that whenever someone creates a file in that directory,
> it is not set group writable. I know the user's umask setting affects
> this, but I don't want to change that - then ALL their files would come
> out group writable. Basically, I want all files in group_dir to be
> readable and writable by group members by default, including newly
> created files. Is there a way to do this? I thought up a kludge to use
> cron to periodically run chmod -R... but that is so ugly I don't really
> want to do it that way.
>
> Thanks for your assistance,
>
> Paul D. Lathrop
>
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