Thanks Indranil and Avijit for your suggestions.
I tried out both the solutions and found them working.
However, the users that I have were working from windows PCs using samba.
I had to insert the following lines for the corresponding share in the
smb.conf file to get the desired result.
create mode = 0777
directory mode = 0777
locking = yes
S Mandal
P.S.
My aim is to replace the existing NetWare server with Linux/samba for file
and print services in office. Shall let you know when I am successful.
However it seems I have a long way to go and need to have hands-on
experience in log on samba scripts, printer sharing, back-ups etc. before I
can really attempt that.
Any suggestions/ references to good URLs is most welcome.
----- Original Message -----
From: Indranil Das Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2000 18:53 PM
Subject: Re: [ilug-cal] how to give 'rwx' permissions to others by default
> Hi,
>
> Change the `umask` setting for the "others" in the profile file of these
users you have created...
>
> do take a look at following URLs --
>
> http://www.bluesky.com.au:457/cgi-bin/man/man?umask+C
>
> http://www.bluesky.com.au:457/OSUserG/_default_perms_new_file.html
>
> http://cc.uoregon.edu/unixhelp/examples/umask.html
>
> HTH,
> --Indra.
>
----- Original Message -----
From: ABHIJIT BHATTACHARYYA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Administrator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2000 12:53 PM
Subject: Re: [ilug-cal] how to give 'rwx' permissions to others by default
> Hi
> You may use adduser as a root and then press enter. Then you reply to all
> answers like login or user name etc. and atlast give password etc.
> For example you have created users like user1, user2, user3 and want to
> allow them to write in each others area, then as a root you use the
> command chmod 777 user1, chmod 777 user2 and so on.
> abhi
>
> On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Administrator wrote:
>
> > I happen to be an occassional user of Linux 6.1 downloaded from PCQ
having
> > rather limied knowledge of UNIX .
> >
> > I now want to create couple of users who by default are required to give
> > read & write permissions to others.
> >
> > Although this may not be a very good idea, I still want to try it out.
> >
> > Can anybody help ?
> >
> > S Mandal
> >
> >
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