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How to set default permissions for files moved or copied to a directory?
My question is similar to How to set the default file permissions on ALL newly created files in linux - but differs in important ways:
I want all files created in (or copied to or moved to) a certain ...
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How to set umask for a folder and it's subfolder?
I'm working on the same directory with some friends and they access it via SSH.
I added us in the same group and defined a sticky bit to keep the user:group values the same.
But when a user create a ...
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How do you apply umask settings to an account that doesn't log in?
On my Ubuntu 11.04x64 server, I have service accounts running which do not log in and do not have home directories. These service accounts are responsible for running processes which are invoked as ...
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