Paul M Foster wrote:
> Scenario: a directory on the server has ownership as: paulf:www-data.
> Directory permissions have been changed to g+w. (Don't recall, but I
> think they were 755 to begin with. A couple of questions:
>
> 1) Is there any way to force the files in that directory to have group
> ownership of www-data, so www-data can write to them, etc.?
Sure,
chmod g+sw /path/to/base/dir
setgid will ensure any directories or files created have the GID of the parent.
> 2) File created in this directory have permissions of 644. Is there any
> way to get them to be created with group write permissions, without
> altering the mask for all the files on the drive?
I'd be curious about this myself. Short of ACLs I don't know.
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