directory-related umask?

Yankee · Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2003 11:22 pm Post subject: directory-related umask?

Hi,

is there any opportunity to set up a directory-related umask. I mean there are options for that build in with samba and ftp servers.
If there is no direct way for this problem, maybe there is a work-a-round?

Thank you very much in advance for your help.

slartibartfasz · Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2003 1:01 pm Post subject:

u can set umasks in the samba config - see man smb.conf - every option that contains 'mask' is of interest concerning your question. beware that options as 'inherit' and the 'map' options interfere with permissions and masks...
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Yankee · Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2003 11:11 am Post subject:

Thx for the answer, but what i really want to know is how i can set a fixed umask for a particular directory as a local user, apart from samba.

kopfarzt · Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2003 1:04 pm Post subject:

I don't think this is directly possible.

Nevertheless perhaps it's enough to use the directories group s-bit, which causes files created in that directory to be in the same group as the directory itself. Combined with a (global) 002 umask, this will essentially allow a group of people to write each others files.

If that is not enough and you are happy with samba, you can export and mount a share from localhost.

Depending on your needs, another workaround would be to create a filesystem (that roughly does what you want) on a file or partiton and mount that with proper flags (like vfats umask, dmask, fmask).

kopfarzt