[Discuss] Advanced file permisions

Jerry Feldman gaf at blu.org
Tue Nov 25 18:40:24 EST 2014


I'm at home, but I think it is 0002 but I'll check in the morning.
The most important issue is to set up the top level directory with owner
root, and group foogroup. This will prevent unauthorized people from
being able to get into the directory.

I changed the subdirectories with rwxrwx and our main group.

On 11/25/2014 10:16 AM, Richard Pieri wrote:
> On 11/25/2014 9:38 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
>> The way I set up the original top level directory is:
>> chmod 2770: rwxrws--- foogroup
>> But when I create a subdirectory I get:
>> rwx--S---
>
> What's your umask?
>

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