----- "Jorge Fábregas" jorge.fabregas@gmail.com wrote:
On Thursday 26 August 2010 10:35:08 Tim Nelson wrote:
I've looked at and tested umask but it only seems to allow/disallow specific permissions, not force permissions. Am I missing something?
How
can I force all files/dirs created under a specific directory to
have the
permissions (and ownership if possible) that I specify?
Hi,
You need to jump into ACLs. You'll do something like:
If you don't want to deal with ACLs and your requirements aren't too specific you could set the SGID, bit (Set Group ID) so that every file created under the directory will be owned by the group owner of that directory:
chown myGroup /var/appdata chmod g+s /var/adppdata
ACL's do indeed look like the method I'd prefer. Are ACL's part of the filesystem (dependent on ext{2,3,4} etc?) or are they part of the file/inode? My primary reason for asking is I'd like to know if when backing up this data, will the ACL's be included in the backup or will they be lost?
--Tim