Actually, now that I look at what I was writing, I feel pretty embarassed actually.[snip]
I did not double check my work in a haste to post the message and run to a meeting.
It does look silly really: 770 and 440. :/
so is my anwer - I made an error too - (
Normally, i'm much more fluent with permissions. I was teseting out a few things with my samba server recently and had some ideas floating around in my head.[snip]
What I wanted to do is make sure any files that are newly created in users /home/<user> directory have a specific group assigned to it ( force group = <group>)
as well as certain permissions for the user and group.
However, I do have one question:
What is the difference between create mask and create mode? Are these two similar? Nevermind, they are synonyms. :)
Now, if I wanted to set certain permissions on newly created directories, wouldn't I use directory mask or directory mode? For instance:
directory mask = 0660
correct - see below ... (only 660 wil result in a directory which may NOT be entered (not executable))
force create mode = 770
This would make a file readable, writable AND executable for user/group owning the files
I would use: create mask = 660 This wil not make files executable.
create mask is for FILES
force directory mode = 440
This would make the directory readable only - not executable, so you can't see what's in it and its not writable.
I would use: create mask = 0770
my error - I ment directory mask
directory mask is for DIRS
this should be directory mask = 0770
To better understand this have a look at: http://www.ctssn.com/linux/lesson6.html
Hope this clears it up,
Greetz, Cor Lem
ps Next time, pls reply in the group - tia
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