On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 03:12:44PM -0600, Hhayes wrote: > I have a Debian box running as a file server on a network with 50 users. So (...) > saved the file, resulting in a file that no other users can write to. Has > anyone ever seen this before?
Ejem, yes, it's called UN*X :-) You can try to settle it by using umask (as other's have suggested) but users can defeat that. If you _really_ want to fix it, have a cronjob do this (quick and dirty, could be _really_ improved) ---------------------------------------------------------- DIR_TO_FIX=/home/groupX GROUP=mygroup PERM=g+rwX find $DIR_TO_FIX -type f -o -type d | xargs chown $GROUP # or chown -hR $GROUP $DIR_TO_FIX find $DIR_TO_FIX -type f -o -type d | xargs chmod $PERM # or chmod -hR $PERM $DIR_TO_FIX ---------------------------------------------------------- Run it as frequently as you think it's necessary (daily, hourly, whatever) and forewarn the users that this is programmed (so they do not get confused when they see things changing while they are working with them) Regards Javi
