Group permissions problem

[Al Gordon]

On 2/15/06, David Mummery <dmummery at accessit.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi all -
>
> I'm setting up a multi-user LTSP environment based on Ubuntu.
>
> I need to have shared folders where users can save files e.g. openoffice documents -  that others can then modify.
>
> I have set umask = 0002 in /etc/login.defs and in .bash-profile file for a user. Logged out and logged in again.
>
> Umask is still 0022 (!)
>
> Even if I type umask 0002 in a shell ,and umask does change to 0002, I still do not create files in openoffice with group read/write permissions.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> David

I'm seeing similar problems on a network that I do a bit of admin'ing
on.  The problem existed when the users were running SuSE, and
continues with Ubuntu.  I'd love to know what the answer ends up
being.  I think it has something to do with umask being (re)set when
starting X.

If you create files from the command line after setting umask 0002, by
using 'touch,' or whatever, do they have the permissions that you
expect?

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  -- AL --