Hi, Great it works now. Clocking off for the weekend so will have some thorough testing of the system done next week.
Once again thanks for the invaluable help. Ian ======================================== Message Received: Apr 19 2007, 03:26 PM From: "Gavin McCullagh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Cc: Subject: Re: public folder file permissions Hi, On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Ian Moore wrote: > Okay I've added umask 002 to all of the below files. > > /etc/profile > /etc/gdm/xsession > /etc/X11/XSession > /etc/login.defs I suspect you only need 1st and 2nd, but anyway. > Files created via 'touch' in the terminal are fine (read/writeable by > all the users) and also the umask returns 002 Cool. > But creating a text file via the GUI results in a file with permissions > rw -- -- Bummer. Out of curiosity, if you create a file with openoffice what happens? It may just be nautilus. > Doing a ls -la returns > drwxrwsrwx 22 foe foe 4096 2007-04-19 14:48 public you seem to have given global permissions on public. That shouldn't be necessary. However, it does seem fine otherwise. > Is this just a bug in the gnome GUI? I think I've got the groups right. Looks like it: https://launchpad.net/bounties/nautilus-ignores-umask I've just tried this out on the beta version of Feisty and it seems to be fixed now. I created a text file by right-clicking on the desktop and it was created with -rwxrwx---. I guess you might have to wait until feisty (which is due out today) to have n. Gavin -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
