On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 12:04:41 -0400
"Reuben D. Budiardja" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


> Thanks, that's work. But only the group permission is still r instead of
> rw. I read man chmod and play around but still got nowhere. Do I need to
> change the umask for the user instead? 

Yes,  you'll want an appropriate umask for the users, i'm surprised that
it isn't correct already.  

umask 002

This should be set already if the userid in question is above 100 and
you're not using "su" to test.

> Also, if I do ls -la /home, I see the sausage directory listed as
> 
> drwxrwsr-x    2 root     sausage     4.0k Sep 25 12:10 sausage
> 
> my question is, what's "s" in the group permission? 


On a directory that simply means that the directory group will be used for
all files created in this directory.   

Sean.


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