[SunHELP] file / directory permissions (resend)

[Edward Chase]

Solaris 7 here.  I didn't mention that because I didn't realize that it 
would make a difference.

I guess I'm not able to do what I want.



At 03:22 PM 3/21/2002 -0800, Michael Horton wrote:
>Edward,
>
>Have you looked at ACL (Access Control List)?  This is
>a new feature in Solaris 8.
>
>
>Hope this helps,
>
>HM
>
>--- Edward Chase <echase at postoffice.providence.edu>
>wrote:
> > Wouldn't Novell NDS for unix be nifty?  I'm having
> > some troubles with
> > setting permissions.
> >
> > I'm trying to setup a directory that can be used for
> > several people to drop
> > and share files in.
> >
> > So, I've created a group called "filedrop".  I've
> > created a directory
> > called "filedrop".  I've set directory group  as
> > "filedrop".  I then chmod
> > the directory to 770.  I then chmod g+s the
> > directory.  Right now every
> > file that gets put there is given the filedrop
> > group.  However due to the
> > system umask, the files are given 644 permissions.
> > I really would like the
> > files in the directory to be given 664 permission
> > without changing the
> > system umask or the users umask.  Is there anyway of
> > changing the
> > permission on the directory to allow this?
> >
> > Thanks.

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