Chmod??

[Guest_imported]

Hi,

I have a problem.

I have set the permissions for a project directory to 770, so i want just the owner and the group to access the directory, but when someone in the group is saving a file it gets 700, so it just the owner that can access the file, why doesnt i get 770 on the files?? The root directory is like i said set to 770? This means that i have to change back to 770 on all saved files.

Hope someone can help me!

Jonte

 

[sendhilk]

check the umask variable in your .profile. it meight be set to 066. change it to 006.
umask=006. the umask variable decides the dafault permissions to the files and directories that are created.

hope this helps.

sendhil

 

[Guest_imported]

Sendhil,

I,ll tried umask=006 and i did get : r-w-r--r-- on the file, what should i set the umask to get rwx-rwx--- ??

Jonte

 

[sendhilk]

just type umask and see what value it returns. if ur umask is 006 the any file that u create will have a permission 660.

the permissions for a file are

666 minus 006 that will be 660

the permissions for any directory created will be
777 minus ( umask, in this case 006) that will be 771.
if u have changed the value of umask in ur .profile then u will have to run ur .profile again.
check ur umask value by just typing
umask.
hope this helps.
sendhilk

 

[Guest_imported]

Thanks Sendhilk,

it works fine now ^-^