Re: [Netatalk-admins] getting ubuntu's afpd understand umask

[Rejo Z. <net...@su...>]

++ 16/09/09 16:24 +0200 - Frank Lahm:
[...]
>> Now, what I am trying to accomplish is that anyone within the group
>> "archive" is able to write to this particular share and that anyone
>> within this group is able to read, edit and remove the files of others
>> users in the same group.
[...]
>> What is it I have done wrong here?
>
>Nothing. Think: when you locally create a file with say `touch file`,
>what are its permissions? Right: "-rw-r--r--". Why? Your clients
>umask.
>
>Solution: change your clients umask. Or use the new option dperm/fperm
>to force addtional permissions on the server.

The first solution doesn't sound like a workable approach, given the 
enviroment here. However, the second solution does work like a charm.

I now know why I didn't find that option myself: it's documented using 
other terminology than the one I expected. Most notably, I was searching 
for "umask". 

Thanks a lot!


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