Re: Help with UMASK and file/directory permissions on sarge

["Bruno Hertz" <brrhtz@yahoo.de>]

"intendedacceleration" <intendedacceleration@gmail.com> writes:

> Well, no since I have the guid bit set, it creates the folders/files
> with the correct group assigned right now (done with a 2774 on the main
> directory). Now I just need to get the permissions functioning
> correctly.

OK, sorry for just understanding gradually what your problem is.

So, /etc/profile actually works and sets an umask of 002, right?
Now you have a 2774 dir and want the right perms on newly subdirs
and files, where subdirs work and files not, right?

So, I'll try to reproduce that under my user bhertz

 $ cd /tmp; mkdir abc
 $ ls -dl abc
 drwxr-xr-x  2 bhertz bhertz 4096 2005-04-04 21:13 abc

 $ su -c "chown bhertz:news abc"
 $ ls -dl abc
 drwxr-xr-x  2 bhertz news 4096 2005-04-04 21:13 abc

 $ su -c "chmod 2774 abc" # su because I'm not actually member of news
 $ ls -dl abc
 drwxrwsr--  2 bhertz news 4096 2005-04-04 21:13 abc

So, 'sticky' bit is set on group. Now my currently active umask

 $ umask
 0022

Now let's see

 $ cd abc
 $ touch a
 $ mkdir b
 $ ls -l
 -rw-r--r--  1 bhertz news    0 2005-04-04 21:19 a
 drwxr-sr-x  2 bhertz news 4096 2005-04-04 21:19 b

Looks good. Now different umask

 $ umask 002
 $ touch c
 $ mkdir d
 $ ls -l
 -rw-r--r--  1 bhertz news    0 2005-04-04 21:19 a
 drwxr-sr-x  2 bhertz news 4096 2005-04-04 21:19 b
 -rw-rw-r--  1 bhertz news    0 2005-04-04 21:20 c
 drwxrwsr-x  2 bhertz news 4096 2005-04-04 21:20 d

Well, everything's fine. When umask is set properly, either by hand or profile,
the write bit is set on both files and directories. So where exactly does it fail
with you?

Regards, Bruno.