Subject: Dropboxes (was Re: Read-Only in Shared Account?)
From: Marc Miller (itlm019@mailbox.ucdavis.edu)
Date: Wed Aug 02 2000 - 18:13:59 EDT
Well; I came up with a partial fix, and I see a partial fix is in the CVS
tree now, but the closest I've gotten is making the dropbox work to get
stuff *into* the directory, but the owner can't get it back *out* again
(still owned by whoever dropped it there) without linux access.
On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Tom Fitzgerald wrote:
> > 3) Can someone tell me how do I affect the file/folder mask? I looked in
> > /etc/atalk/config and couldn't find anything that looked appropriate. I would
> > like to change the mask in only certain directories and leave the default as
> > is. Is this possible?
>
> New folders are always created with the same permissions as their parent
> folder. Files are created with the permissions of the parent folder,
> masked with 0666.
>
> So generally if you set the root folders up right, and manually set the
> permissions on special folders created in it (like dropboxes), everything
> should work.
>
> If this doesn't do what you need, users will need to change the
> permissions on the files themselves, as described above.
>
> > PS -- did anybody figure out how to create a drop box?
>
> Depends on exactly what you need, but yes. The discussion should be in
> the list archives.
>
>
>
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