>On Friday 26 January 2007 15:14, Craig White wrote: >> > I simply want users to be able to write to those directories. I hate >> > having to do things as root when it isn't necessary or advisable for >> > security. The /mnt/Holding one is the vital one. That was deliberately >> > set up with huge amounts of space for this purpose. >> >> ---- >> you might want to consider doing things like this... >> >> if all 'users' are members of 'users' group >> >> chgrp users /mnt/Holding -R >> chmod g+s /mnt/Holding -R >> chmod g+w /mnt/Holding -R >> >> bear in mind that users with a default umask of 022 will create files >> with a 644 and folders with 755 permissions which means that other users >> will not be able to 'write' into those directories or over those files. >> >If I chgrp and chmod, wouldn't that last for one session only? IOW - Wouldn't >it be overwritten when I boot up tomorrow? If you simply make /mnt/HOLDING world read/write *after* your filesystem is mounted on it, and add the 'sticky' bit, the directory will function like /tmp. i.e. anyone can read/write/execute but only the owner can delete. Is this suitable? chmod a+rwxt /mnt/Holding (or chmod 1777 /mnt/Holding) will do it, and the permission should stay-put across re-mounts. Cheers, Terry
