Comments on: Linux setup shared directory

By: sadegh

sadegh — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 07:41:01 +0000

i have a drive in windows server 2003 and I want share this drive for one user
this user use a linux Red Hat OS and i want just this user modify this drive and other network user can’t any modify this folder

How can i ddo this
by Active directory User How?

By: Matt Dunlap

Matt Dunlap — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:04:52 +0000

I actually found that my issue had to do with php ssh2. I was using WordPress auto upgrade feature and the files would get created but without the correct file permission. I was able to use filezilla sftp for the developers to upload and create files which worked.

I made a change to the mask in the wordpress config that created group writable files.

By: james

james — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 20:05:07 +0000

The reason this doesn’t work as Jon and Dunlap want:

Setgid when set on a directory (e.g., the 2 in 2775) basically only specifies the default group for new files not their permissions. The permissions will still be dictated by umask; so you should set umask 002 (so new files are created with read/write permission for everyone in the group by default — the normal umask is 022).

This is normally done in /etc/profile or in each users ~/.profile or ~/.bashrc

By: Matt Dunlap

Matt Dunlap — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:03:25 +0000

I made a web group, added the users.

Made a directory called test
chown root.web test -R
chmod 2775 test -R

I can see the guid bit set, but when I make a file in the test directory, it does not have group write permissions? the file is root.web but the permissions are 644.

I thought since the directory was 2775, the files that are created inside are 664… Did I do something wrong?

Group members need to add files and then other group members need to write to them.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:32:12 +0000

Hey, should be : instead of . in 5.a.

Thanks for the tutorial!

By: jon

jon — Mon, 31 May 2010 07:43:13 +0000

My problem is that when usr1 creates a file foo in /home/myproj he then becomes the owner of foo and no one else can edit it. How can I cause files and dirs under /home/myproj to be accessed (read write del) by all the users in the group?

ls -l /home/myproj
-rw-r–r– 1 usr1 users 5 May 31 03:37 foo