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Re: Help! File permissions keep changing...



Sounds like you want to change your users umask if you want to change the
behavior system wide, or maybe fiddle around with ACLs or set the
directory sticky if it is just one part of your file system.

David.

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On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Hhayes wrote:

> I have a Debian box running as a file server on a network with 50 users. So
>
> far it works great except for the user/file permissions. I can go into a
>
> directory and set the owner and group permissions to read/write on all
>
> files in the directory and that works fine. Then as soon as one of the
>
> users opens a file and saves it, the permissions on that file change to read
>
> only for the group permissions and changes the owner to the user that just
>
> saved the file, resulting in a file that no other users can write to. Has
>
> anyone ever seen this before?
>
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