Pete Nesbitt <mailto:pete@xxxxxxxxx> on Saturday, January 03, 2004 1:26 PM said: > useradd always sets ownership to the new dirs & files to the new user. > > It sounds like you may want to look at sgid to set the default group > ownership so group members can all access all files. You should man > chmod & look for sgid for more info. uh oh. that sounds a little too complicated for me... how about this? i create a script to automagically do this for me? i've never written a shell script but i imagine it would do the following: 1. accept one piece of information: username 2. perform the following commands: # useradd $username # cd /home/$username # chown .apache . www/ # chmod 770 . www/ # passwd $username <some_default_password> 3. exit this way i can create the new user AND have the correct permissions. this should work right? chris. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
