Setting separate default file and directory permissions

SUSE Product Topics SLES Configure-Administer
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Hi,

This is a quick question, I have tried to find an answer but it’s been unsuccesful.

Is there a way to set different default permissions for files and for directories?

To illustrate better, let’s say I have a /project samba share. I want to configure that share so that new files created in it have the file permissions of 660, and new directories are created with 750.

I have thought of umask, acls, but I dont really know how to accomplish this.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Diego

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Just to be clear, that would allow any files created to be modified by
anybody who is either the group-owner (and probably the creator if
that’s the case) or a group-owner (member of the specified group), but
that would also mean that any directories created could only be
browsed/read by group-owner members. That may be a little strange,
since members of the group could modify files created, at the base
level, but could not create/delete files in any subdirectories because
the directory permissions did not allow the group-owner to write.

I guess this goes back to: what is your business need here? Maybe it
is, “Allow modification of files anywhere but only creation by
group-owners in this subdirectory” but that seems pretty strange without
an interesting story behind it.

Good luck.
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Thank you,

It was solved by adding this to the smb.conf share block:

Mask for new files that are created;

create mask = 0660

mask for new directories that are created:

directory mask = 0750

Thanks.

Diego