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Old 12-04-2006
100% ownership to files
ok. this is a bit complicated.


i have a manager here who wants me to give another user access to all the files he owns. he wants this other user to have the same rights has he does.

the problem has been that whenever the manager creates a new file the permissions on the files created automatically grants the manager, the owner of the file, full read and write access but denies write and execute to everyone else, including the manager's group.

now, this other user belongs to the managers group. and i've had to manually issue a chmod -R g+w on new directories/files each time the user calls in to complain about getting permission denied. how can i deal with this so this other user automatically gets access to the files that his manager creates? i'll reiterate that he does belong to the same group as the manager.

this is SunSolaris box. i know about the umask but i'm not sure where to insert it and in which file.

any help is appreciated.
Terrible
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Old 12-04-2006
Set a umask for the manager so that every file he creates will be having a 660 permission. Edit manager's profile and type in the following command.

umask 002

Regards,

Kaps
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Old 12-04-2006
Sorry, umask 006 for 660. 002 will create 664.
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Old 12-05-2006
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Originally Posted by kapilraj
Sorry, umask 006 for 660. 002 will create 664.
thanks a lot.


umask 002 was what i gave him. i just dropped it somewhere in his profile...doesn't matter right? i put it all by itself in a new line.

002 gives all new directorys a 774. meaning, owner and group have all access, while others have only read...which is fine
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