[Linux-disciples] Per-directory Umask Setting?

[Adam Kessel]

On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 04:42:08PM -0400, Dylan Thurston wrote:
> On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 02:23:13PM -0400, Adam Kessel wrote:
> > Let's say I have a directory owned by user:group and I want all files in
> > the directory to be user and group readable and writable and all
> > directories in the directories to be user and group readable, writable,
> > and executable.
> Generally, the permissions on the files are what they are.  You seem to
> want to override all permissions on all files in a subdirectory; I don't
> know of any way to do that.  You need to make sure the files have the
> right permissions in the first place.  What about a cron job to fix the
> permissions?

What I really want is for files *created* in a directory to inherit a
certain set of permissions, the way they inherit ownership if the
directory is ug+s.  I could do this with a cron job but of course there
would be some lag period between the time the file is created and the
time it is assigned the correct permissions.  I wouldn't want to run the
cron job too frequently because it would be at least mildly disk
intensive having to spider through the whole directory structure.

I have a suspicion that this is what the new ACL filesystem features in
2.6 do, but a quick look at the documentation was unenlightening.
-- 
Adam Kessel
http://adam.rosi-kessel.org
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