umask, ACL inheritance and setgid +s not working with copy from flash drive in nautilus
Andy Graybeal
andy.graybeal at casanueva.com
Tue Sep 14 20:13:52 UTC 2010
>
> Depends how you copy the file... in this case, it looks as though the
> copy tried to preserve the traditional Posix permissions and therefore
> ruined your mask. Was this copy done by nautilus? You need to copy
> files wihout preserving their original attributes (at least,
> permissions) if you want inheritance to work correctly.
>
I'm still processing what you said. The copy was done by nautilus. How
do I copy files without preserving their original attributes? I'm
sorry if this sounds like a lame question.
-Andy
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