chown and chmod a dir permanently - please help

starachna

hello guys, i have searched and manned quite a bit, but i can't seem to get over this, and i bet tis quite simple ...

i need a directory to keep the following permissions:
chown -R apache.webdev chmod 770

but when ever a user that belongs to the group webdev edits a file in the dir it changes the file permissions to:
$user.$group chmod 755

i have no joy with this, so much so, that i'm thingking of setting a cron job to do this every 5 minutes or so, and that would just be silly.

i appreaciate any help you can chuck my way, thank you kindly
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m0pr0be · Guru Joined: 29 Aug 2002 Posts: 308

depending on your file system type you could use POSIX-ACLs.

you need to have support for POSIX-ACLs compiled into your kernel.

you can set default permissions for directories with POSIX ACLs.

you also need sys-apps/acl emerged for the userspace tools

more info:

http://acl.bestbits.at

DarrenM · Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2003 12:07 am Post subject:

Look into setting the umask for the users. It controls the default file permissions.

starachna · Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2003 7:20 am Post subject: thank you

just a quick thank, your info helped me a great deal, busy compiling my kernel now, i have a reasonable idea whot to do, everything should go well, thank you

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