[Discuss] setting up a new server

[David Bronaugh]

You might try putting all users in the same primary group, chmod 775 
everything they have access to, then change the umask for all users to 002.

This might be a good compromise between usability and security.

David
ps: Debian

Andrew Burgess wrote:
> My old server died. Both HD's toasted consecutively. I now have a new 
> setup and have run into two problems. It's fedora core 7 ( no I will 
> not switch to someone else's idea of the "Perfect Distro") I just have 
> a single question. I have an extra drive that I have added as 
> /mnt/share that I want everyone to be able to create and read files 
> but I have either forgotten how to do this or something has changed in 
> the last 4 distro's that will not let me do this any more. anyone have 
> the majik hint that will let me set this drive to be writeable by all 
> users?
> The other problem is with samba and I'm working through this one (or 
> so help me god you'll read about me in the news as an insurance 
> statistic.
> thanks for the assist.
> Andrew.
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