Re: [cobalt-users] file creation permissions

[Gerald Young <me@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Richard

Yes you can use 'umask' to set the default file permissions

the links below give some good info if you are new to Linux have a read of
setting file premissions manually 

http://thibs.menloschool.org/help/unix/tasks/permissions_default.html Setting
http://thibs.menloschool.org/help/unix/examples/umask.html

also when logged in the man page will be there for umask
man umask

basic procedure is to ssh or telnet into the directory and run

umask
on my raq3  output is
022

so run
umask 000

## will give read-write permissions for owner-group - user

If you like create a new directory
and create some test files by running

touch filename

check the premissions
ls -l
change the umask and make another file have fun get it how you want

hope this ramble helps
Gerald Y



On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, you wrote:
> One of my users stores documents under his personal account. By default, all
> docs uploaded and saved have the read only attribute. Can I bulk change
> these and change a setting to stop this.
> 
> If it means doing it outside of the GUI, can you be quite specific on a
> stage by stage process and Linux is very new to me.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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