On 06/22/2011 01:22 AM, Todd Cary wrote: > Grasping a full understanding of setting default Users, Groups > and Masks has alluded me over the years, but now I find myself in > a situation where manually "setting" the file/directory > attributes is becoming a pain. > > I understand the fundamentals of the file attributes, though from > time to time I have to review the "sticky bit"; what I do not > understand is where/how the attributes are set when a user > creates or modifies a file/directory. Here is my situation: > > My /var/www/html files have been manually set by me to > apache/apache 774. This allows my PHP applications to access the > files, and I assume this is a "good" setting. In your smb.conf file, add the following to the [sharename] section: force user = apache force create mode = 0774 This should ensure that all files you dump in via samba are always owned by apache with the proper permissions. I do this on servers that never see the internet. If this is insecure, please enlighten me as said servers may one day be made visible to the outside world... Ak.