Re: Push permissions to child files automagically.

From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 11/10/05 

Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 00:09:43 +0100

In alt.os.linux John B <jbngspam@yahoo.com>:
> Sybren Stuvel wrote:
>> Michael Heiming enlightened us with:
>>
>>>Check out Linux ACL (ww.tldp.org) if you need more control.
>>
>>
>> I think this is what OP wants.
>>
>> To OP: using Access Control Lists, you can define the permissions with
>> more detail, and you can also set default permissions for newly
>> created files & directories.
>>
>> Of course, if the program you "paste" from explicitly sets the
>> permissions to those of the original file, it might override the ACL
>> mechanism.
>>
>> Sybren
> Thanks both for your input.
> I will have a look at ACL's but dont think they will quite suit as I
> need to override any existing permissions on the files that are put into
> this directory, regardless of what they are which will require root privs.
> The way I need it to work is the same as the option to replace
> permissions on all child objects with my permissions as applicable in
> windoze in the security >> advanced dialog, but automatically, not
> manually as I can already do that easier with chmod -r.

Curious, what's wrong with default permissions, set via umask?
Perhaps you could elaborate what you are doing and someone has an
idea what to do? 

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