Inherit privileges from parent folder?

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mala

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Hi,

the privileges for /Users/Shared folder is Read/Write for Owner/Group/Everyone, but I found out that things put in the folder has RedOnly for Group/Everyone. Is it someway possible to make Read/write the default privilege for Group for items added to the Shared folder? I want the Group to always have write access to items in the shared folder , without having to change it manually everytime.

TIA
/Mala
 
Only the group ownership is inherited, this being the default behavior of BSD.

There is no way to force permissions by inheritance, but you could have your collaborating people set their umask from 022 to 002, thus not masking away the group-writable bit. It is only important that the process creating the file runs with umask of 2. Please beware that this is a global option, and will make all files created by such process into group-writable.
 
check out batchmod on versiontracker. It can change permissions on sub-files/folders. It is freeware too.

R.
 
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