multiple users working in one directory. how?

[lamekain]

Hi,
me and a friend of mine are involved in a website-project. I have an Apache2 and SSHD running on my box. He connects to the box with SSH and we work on the project located in my ~/www/projectName/.

The problem is that when we work on the files and save them they become non-writable for the other side. Eg. when I save the changes I made to foo.php, my friend can't change the file unless I do a "chmod g+w foo.php").

Is it possible to make the files keep their permissions after saving them? I have heard that one can change the file-creation-mask or something, but could I make a change that only affected the projectName directory?

And using ACLs or a CVS server is tempting, but I'm looking for a simple solution. Thanks for any help people!
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[tomk]

CVS would be the best way forward, otherwise check your umask. There's no way to set umasks for a specific directory, but you could write an alias:

[CMI]

- You can use umask and set it to 002 to make files be created with permissions 664 by default (ug=rw, o=r).
- You can change primary groups (the GID listed in /etc/passwd, not extra groups) to match if you have group owner issues.
- You can do what I do, and have a cron job run as root clean up owners and permissions on a regular basis.
- You can use Samba (or something else probably) to connect using your own information, but let Samba force user and group owners and permissions for you.
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