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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