[CentOS] Using umask

John Hodrien wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Jun 2011, Todd Cary wrote:
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>> 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.
>>
>> Now, my server is connected via Samba to my desktop.  If I create
>> a file, it is todd/todd 744, so Apache cannot access them.
>>
>> If PHP (Apache) creates or modifies a file, it is apache/apache
>> 755, so I cannot access them (Write/Delete).
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> Either have a group that you're both a member of and have a SGID bit set
> on the relevent directories using that gruop, or look at ACLs.

To expand on John's cmts. I'd make you a member of the apache group -
that's usermod -G apache todd, making it a secondary group, *not* your
personal primary group.

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