Simple / Stupid File Permissions Question

[Eduardo Viruena Silva]

On Fri, 9 May 2003, Chris Pressey wrote:

> On Fri, 9 May 2003 12:39:22 -0400
> Paul Lathrop <plathrop at mqtweb.com> 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.


change umask for the users that want to write in this directory.
Instead of having:     umask 022
try:		       umask 002


> 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
>
> Hello,
>
> Not a solution, but a suggesion for a better kludge might be to use
> /usr/ports/sysutils/wait_on to watch the directory for changes.
>
> Unfortunately, I don't think wait_on can watch for changes at any depth
> in a directory hierarchy, only at the top level.  (I'd love to be proven
> wrong, though.)  That limits its usefulness, but if you don't care
> about subdirectories, it might be workable.
>
> -Chris
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