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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: Default permissions within dir. Date: 12 Nov 1995 16:07:50 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4852k6$k81@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <47thk2$b4o@news1.channel1.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Keywords: Chmod, SGID, SUID Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:8531 comp.unix.admin:34731 Kevin J. Rocque <kevin@user1.channel1.com> wrote: >I am trying to set up a directory so that the permission is >the same for every new file, regardless of the user's umask >setting. This is impossible (short of tweaking the kernel). > This situation is analogous to chmod g+s /path/dir >where dir is a directory. This is a no-op on BSD, since it's the default behaviour. On some other systems, this causes the system to assume BSD semantics for this directory hierarchy. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)