umask, ACL inheritance and setgid +s not working with copy from flash drive in nautilus

[Rashkae]

Andy Graybeal wrote:
>> I don't think you're heading in a bad direction.. I just don't know how
>> to do it....
>>
>> If you simply use a cp command in a shell, the ACL's inherit properly
>> (unless, of course, you add an option to preserve permissions). Alas, I
>> have no idea to to control whether or not the various GUI file managers
>> preserve file permissions on copy, and this is where your problems come
>> from.  (It doesn't help that default ACL seem to be something not at all
>> understood by many linux users here.)
>>
>>
> 
> Rashkae,
> Get this, I just did this from gnome-terminal:
> 
> andy.graybeal at buddleia:~$ touch milkmandan
> andy.graybeal at buddleia:~$ ls -al milkmandan
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 andy.graybeal andy.graybeal 0 2010-09-14 17:27 milkmandan
> andy.graybeal at buddleia:~$ chmod g-w milkmandan
> andy.graybeal at buddleia:~$ ls -al milkmandan
> -rw-r--r-- 1 andy.graybeal andy.graybeal 0 2010-09-14 17:27 milkmandan
> andy.graybeal at buddleia:~$ cp milkmandan /srv/Desktop/Tech/
> andy.graybeal at buddleia:~$ ls -al /srv/Desktop/Tech/milkmandan
> -rw-r--r--+ 1 andy.graybeal tech 0 2010-09-14 17:28 
> /srv/Desktop/Tech/milkmandan
> andy.graybeal at buddleia:~$ getfacl /srv/Desktop/Tech/milkmandan
> getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names
> # file: srv/Desktop/Tech/milkmandan
> # owner: andy.graybeal
> # group: tech
> user::rw-
> group::rwx			#effective:r--
> mask::r--
> other::r--
> 
> 
> So it does the same thing from gnome-terminal. I'll be the first to 
> admit, I have no clue what I'm doing.
> 
> Thank you for your input.
> -Andy
> 

You're right,,, brain failure on my part.. by default, cp preserves the 
mode.... arrgh... easy enough to fix, but I'm not sure how I would 
achieve what you're trying to do.