This should be pretty easy however it's tricky to Google.
How can I set it so every time "username" creates a new folder, it has 775 permissions, instead of 755? Basically to change the default assigned permissions for new folders.
Thanks,
Hristian
Set may set a correct umask.
You can find extra documentation at http://centoscert.com/content/what-umask-and-how-setup-default-umask
You can modify the one in /etc/profile (replace 022 by 002) if you want to change for the whole system.
But careful, this also impact access rights of 'standard' files (not only folders).
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On my school directory when I ls -l (running Fedora) I see that I have a ton of files and directories owned by me, but one specific directory is owned by someone else. I recall a few months ago I tried copying that directory to my own as it had 744 privileges by that user. For some reason that user owns the directory in my home directory with 700 privileges so I cannot delete the directory. My home directory has 700 privileges.
Anyone know why something like this could have happened and how I can prevent it form happening in the future? Also, how should I go about deleting these files in my home directory? If needed I can contact IT but I want to see if there is anything I can do without contacting them.
Yellow is my user, red is the foreign user
Two possible options IMHO:
Check the permissions of your /home/YELLOW folder, if it
has o+w, or g+w, someone (the user
listed as the owner of the directory) may have created it there.
root did it. It doesn't make much sense for you, so probably if he/she did, it was by mistake (for example, performing some backup-and-restore administration and so on).
Normally permission for deletion of things in unix filesytems are grabbed from
the parent folder, so, you need to have "write permission" in a folder
to create or remove files (unless there is sticky bit in action);
directories are just special type of files so the rules still applies.
If the directory is empty, a simple rmdir p2Testing or rm -rf p2Testing would be enough. But, if the directory has files and
sub-directories, you won't have permissions to modify or delete them
(look at the drwx------), and only someone with more powers will be
able to do it for you (e.g. root, or the owner if he still have +w in
/home/YELLOW).
When I install Cygwin, the default location is c:\cygwin and after I open a Cygwin terminal, it creates my home folder in C:\cygwin\home\ which the Everyone group has read access to by default. So, if I create a diary in vim and save it to my profile, all users of the computer I'm logged on to can read my diary. Obviously this is not the default option for normal Windows profiles, so I'm wondering what the logic is behind Cygwin's default home directory permissions, so I can use it the way it is meant to be used. Thanks!
There are differences between the permission structures of windows and cygwin.
You can protect your diary by specifying its permission in windows using right click.
You can then check its permissions in cygwin using:
ls -l diary.txt
chmod 0600 diary.txt
ls -l diary.txt
Then login the same machine as a different (test) user and see if you read the file under windows, and in cygwin.
For people interested in this topic, it probably goes back to a setting called UMASK on linux, which specifies default permissions for new files. The default value of "022" means "take away no permissions from the owner, and take away write permissions from the group and the rest of the world" which means that file owners have full access, everyone else has read access.
They say it's to make it easier to share files with other users. I say it's obvious that this logic predates times when we had web browsers and other tools capable of saving passwords to disk.
I have a java servlet. When it saves files, it saves them as tomcat:tomcat (in a linux environment). I actually need it to save it as sportsfan:tomcat as sportsfan is the FTP user and also needs access to create, modify or overwrite these files.
I thought about running tomcat as sportsfan:tomcat, but I'm running multiple applications under the one tomcat instance.
Perhaps the best way to do this would be to have the FTP user log in as part of the tomcat group. Would that be a correct way?
Please advise.
Adding your sportsfan user ftp to the tomcat group could be a good solution but before that check which are the modifiable files in you system with this permission and consider the security risks.
Another solution: Create a sportsfan group and add your sportsfan user to it. Then change the group of your upload directory and set it as setgid:
chgrp sportsfan upload
chmod g+s upload
After that the new files in the upload will be created with tomcat:sportsfan owner:group. It's not exactly what you asked for but changing the user id (setuid directories) is not supported on Linux. Wikipedia has a pretty good article about setuid and setgid directories. Futhermore, you have to set the umask value of the tomcat user to 000x (e.g. 0002) or a similar value which gives full access to the group.
3rd solution: set up a cron job which changes the permission in every n minutes.
I want to share a folder among all users of a group : dev. So that all files are regardless of the owner can be edited by anyone in the group.
I have created the shared folder and set the respective permissions to the folder.
When a user creates a new file in that folder it belongs to owner:dev
But the permission for the files are rw-r--r--
So other users who belong the same group are not able to edit the files.
Like default group become "dev" how can I set the default permission for the files created in that directory.
I don't want to use "umask" technique because the user will upload files into that directory throuh ftp and other tools.
This really belongs on serverfault and I already mentioned there's almost an exact duplicate there, but anyway there's a nice little solution you can use, which is the FUSE bindfs module (there's a package in ubuntu). You use it to mount one directory onto another mountpoint and can set things such as the default permissions of any files created here, their owner, group and the permissions of files already in the directory (which is what you seem to want).
I don't want to use "umask" technique because the user will upload files into that directory throuh ftp and other tools.
That's the only way to do it, unless those "other tools" are themselves able to adjust permissions.
If you have root access, you can set the default umask for everyone to 002 from /etc/bashrc (assuming bash the default shell for the users in question).
A hack (and this is less preferable to umask) is to setup a cron job that will run every minute and do a chmod -R g+w <dir>.
I am a bit lost with Linux file and directory permissions. What I would like to do is have one user be able to create, delete, and rename directories, while other users are not able to do so, but they should be able to read and write to the directories as well as traverse them.
So group 'storage' has access to directory /workspace, those are the users which are not supposed to be able to create, delete, or rename directories. Group 'storageAdmin' also has access to directory /workspace, but is able to create, delete, or rename directories within.
Whenever 'storageAdmin' creates a new directory it should automatically be accessible to 'storage' such that they can read and write files within it.
Am I correct in that /workspace needs to be owned by 'storageAdmin' and be set to chmod 775 for this to work properly?
The correct permissions are 2775, setting the set gid bit too. This causes new files and directories to inherit the parent's permissions, owner and group.
Be aware though, that the standard unix permissions do not allow you to restrict access to the directory to the storage group after chgrping it to storageAdmin. Everyone has access now according to the other permission set.
Use Posix ACLs or SE Linux if you really need more fine grained access controls.