Re: Help! File permissions keep changing...
What do I need to change the 022 setting to be for -rwxrwx--- ?
"John Hardcastle" <johnhardcastle@ihug.co.nz> wrote in message
news:1qmvW-6mW-21@gated-at.bofh.it...
>
> So the default file permissions don't do what you want.
> $ umask
> Read the manual page for the umask command,
> $ man umask
> As root, change the umask in /etc/profile to reflect the permissions you
> want.
> # vi /etc/profile
> Then have all users logout and login again. Their $HOME/.bashrc will
> read /etc/profile and their umask will reflect your changes.
>
> John
>
> On 02/18/04 10:12, Hhayes wrote:
>
> >I have a Debian box running as a file server on a network with 50 users.
So
> >
> >far it works great except for the user/file permissions. I can go into a
> >
> >directory and set the owner and group permissions to read/write on all
> >
> >files in the directory and that works fine. Then as soon as one of the
> >
> >users opens a file and saves it, the permissions on that file change to
read
> >
> >only for the group permissions and changes the owner to the user that
just
> >
> >saved the file, resulting in a file that no other users can write to. Has
> >
> >anyone ever seen this before?
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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