Public Directories

[Tuukka Hastrup]

On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote:
> (But we do NOT have one big public directory, rather seperate
> directories for different groups, and group membership is required for
> access. Things are a bit different then).

There could be one group 'users' where everybody gets added to by
default, like there is a private group for each user. Then you can use the
same setup for both use cases.

> However, umasks affect permissions, using mv rather than cp affects
> permissions, moving a file in the same partition or between partitions
> or over the network or with nautilus etc. give different permissions.
> And it's way too much to ask the users assign permissions manually.

umask 0022 as it is by default should be enough, is it not? If some tools
don't honour it, wouldn't that be a bug?

> I tried making the setup we needed using ACLs, Unix permissions etc. but
> didn't find a configuration the just worked the "simple" way users
> expected. So I hacked it with a python script:

Did you try to chmod g+s the group directories? That way, files and
subdirectories get their group from the parent directory.


I suppose this is not for all users and your script would be a good
addition to default installs, but the configuration above is what I've
been using this far for workgroups.


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