File permissions and more

[Kooldino]

Is there a way I can set the default permissions for people to be 777? So anything they do is accessible by everyone?

Also, is there a way I can FTP a file to a unix box from a windows box and maintain the original date and time stamps?

side note: why does chmod -R 777 * take hours?

[TnT]

You want to use 'umask' to set the user's file creation mask.

Where are you doing the 'chmod -R 777 *' from?

[Ribbit]

I think (so someone more certain should confirm/clarify this) that umask defines the bits that should be cleared from the default permission bits. So to make everything as permissible as possible, you want to use umask 000 - put it either in /etc/profile or the appropriate users' startup scripts.

[Ribbit]

Oh, and with the ftp thing, I think it will depend on the ftp client you use.

[Kooldino]

Ok, sounds good so far.

I'm running a SAMBA server on this machine, so people telnet'ing into it or anything...so if i put the umask command in their profile, would it even load and run the profile to fix the problem if they were creating things in windows explorer on the mapped drive?

[Ribbit]

Ah, that's different....

This is likely something you need to configure in Samba then. Never run Samba myself, so can't be of more use, sorry.

[Kooldino]

Well, samba IS based off of user profiles.

[Kooldino]

Ok, so i didn't have a profile in my /home/myusername directory...so I created a ".profile" file and put "umask 000" into it.

Then all I did was "touch myself" and do an ls -al on it. it was rw,r,r

wtf?

[spadnos]

Isn't there a system or mount-specific permission mask? (actually, I think there's a mount option to set this)

I can't remember exactly.

- Steve

[Kooldino]

Explain?

[albatorsk]

Originally posted by Kooldino
Ok, sounds good so far.

I'm running a SAMBA server on this machine, so people telnet'ing into it or anything...so if i put the umask command in their profile, would it even load and run the profile to fix the problem if they were creating things in windows explorer on the mapped drive?

I'm not quite certain about what you want to do, but as I understand it you want to make every file "created" by a user over SAMBA readable, writable and executable by all users? If that is the case, then simply put

create mask = 0777
directory mask = 0777

in smb.conf for the share you want to apply it to. See http://se.samba.org/samba/docs/man/s...tml#CREATEMASK and http://se.samba.org/samba/docs/man/s...#DIRECTORYMASK for more information. If this isn't what you were wondering, then I apologize for wasting your time

And btw. SAMBA doesn't read /etc/profile or ~/.profile. They are intended for login shells.

[RC Agent]

Originally posted by Kooldino
Ok, so i didn't have a profile in my /home/myusername directory...so I created a ".profile" file and put "umask 000" into it.

Then all I did was "touch myself" and do an ls -al on it. it was rw,r,r

wtf?

Just by creating the file, you didn't set your umask. You would have needed to source your .profile file first or open a new shell.

[Kooldino]

Originally posted by albatorsk
I'm not quite certain about what you want to do, but as I understand it you want to make every file "created" by a user over SAMBA readable, writable and executable by all users? If that is the case, then simply put

create mask = 0777
directory mask = 0777

in smb.conf for the share you want to apply it to. See http://se.samba.org/samba/docs/man/s...tml#CREATEMASK and http://se.samba.org/samba/docs/man/s...#DIRECTORYMASK for more information. If this isn't what you were wondering, then I apologize for wasting your time

And btw. SAMBA doesn't read /etc/profile or ~/.profile. They are intended for login shells.

Awesome, that's exactly what I'm looking for. I'll try that tomorrow morning!!! Thanks!

[Kooldino]

[raid]
path = /raid
writeable = yes
guest ok = yes
create mask = 0777
directory mask = 0777
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As far as files go, I'm ok...

But whenver I create a directory, it's still read only.

Does the server have to be restarted?

[Kooldino]

Also tried force directory mode = 0777, which did nothing.