It sounds like a couple of things tied together.
The first is internal security which only you can decide on. You are
wanting to give Everyone access to files in this folder, but only allow
modifications by certain folks? If that is the intent, then yes the
CRON hack will work, but not solve the underlying problem of what is
going on. On the security side, giving Everyone access to the files
means that the information can be copied by one means or another, if
this is okay then you really only have to worry about limiting access
to the script being used to make the change.
The better fix would be to investigate (sounds easy I know) why the
users are not logging in properly to the server so that the file perms
are being set correctly. It could be a router problem or the software
used to create the document is messed up, or the perms for the person's
account on the server are not set correctly.
Jerry
On Wednesday, September 10, 2003, at 05:20 PM, estate wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I've been lurking here for a few days but now I have a question!
>
> My department has a Xserve and about 7 Mac client machines. All
> clients fileshare with the Xserve
> and do not netboot. Some folks are transferring files over that have
> read-only group priviliges
> and others in the group open the file, edit but cannot save it.
>
> Example:
> clients (bob, sue) transfer files to Xserve (where they log in as a
> user who are in the same
> group) (bob in dept A, sue in Dept A). Bob transfers file foo.txt to
> the Xserve. Sue opens foo.txt
> but cannot save it because Bob copied it in a way that the Group write
> priviliges are missing.
>
> This is causing me headaches. I want to run a cron job every night
> that sets all files under a
> particular folder to 775 (rwx rwx r-x). Now, is this a bad idea for
> reason that I don't know
> about? This will affect tens of thousands of files every night. Or can
> someone tell me / point me
> to site as to why my clients are copying files to the Server
> incorrectly.
>
> thanks for any advice.
>
> matt
>
>
>
>
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