Re: file permissions


Subject: Re: file permissions
From: Christian Schmidt (ChriSchmiLi@gmx.de)
Date: Sat Jan 06 2001 - 05:50:01 EST


Mike Egglestone schrieb am 05.01.2001:

> I'm having some trouble with file permissions after the user
> logs into the appleshare....(through the chooser)
> I have a share from netatalk called "web"
> its real location is here
> /var/www/
> I have given rwx permissions to the group of the folder "www" -R
> so basically I did this......
> cd /var
> chgrp web www -R
> chmod g+rwx www -R
> when the user mounts the share "web"... all is good...
> However they can't write to (the root) of the share....
> if they go into the share.... a directory or more... then the permissions
> work fine...
> basically from the mac computer... they can write to here
> /var/www/library/

On my Linux server there is a directory shared by netatalk. I set the
permissions as follows:
drwsrwsr-- 10 root users

And everything works fine. Every user can login via the chooser and
create directories and files.

hth,
Christian

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