You probably want to set the umask for your users to 002, so they make 775 files by default. This would be the simplest approach. On a linux box it would go in /etc/profile.local. Using my x86 box at the moment, so can't check where would be best on OS X, somewhere in /etc.
This sounds like the right solution in your case, but if your people who are using the box for personal use then they might not want to be g+w by default. Hen On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, 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 > > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be September 23. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be September 23. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
