On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Andrew M Hoerter wrote:
>
> On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Paul M Foster wrote:
>
> > So they want to edit these files. All the files have a group of "web",
> > and Joe and Bob are part of the "web" group on the server. (Joe is also
> > part of the "web" group on his workstation, but since Bob's running
> > Windows, he has no "group" on his box.) How can permissions be set on
> > the server directory so that when Joe saves his file edits to that
> > directory, Bob can immediately pick up the file and also edit it?
>
> chgrp web /directory
> chmod g+rwxs /directory
>
> And then Joe and Bob set their umask appropriately so that files are
> group-writeable on creation. I assume Samba can handle that somehow...
Would it work to have Joe and Bob set their umask to 007 (well, anything
so the group write bit is zero)?
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