Setting up shared staff area

[Ben Edwards]

Ive been trying to work out the best way of setting up user/group
access for a directory where staff can share files.

I was thinking of making all the staff users have a main group of staff.  

I was than going to set up a directory called /home/group/staff and
set the access to this directory so people in the staff group have
full access and anybody else had no access (i.e. not even read
access).

I know how to set up the access rights on files/directories that
already exist but what I can't work out is how to set it up so when
one of these staff users creates a file the user and group access is
read/write and the world access is none (i.e. not ever read).  I seem
to remember something from years ago called umask which was set in the
.bashrc.  It was used something like 'umask 770'.  It sets the access
rights for new files the user creates.  Not sure however whether
.bashrc gets run before gnome is started.  Is there something like
.gnomerc or am I going about this the wrong way?

Ben
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