[CentOS] Using umask

[Todd Cary]

Many thanks to you and Drew....I am the only user...

Todd

On 6/21/2011 11:05 PM, Anthony wrote:
> 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.
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