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Asked: 2013-02-12 23:19:29 +0800 CST

unix: overwriting a file written by another user in same group

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OS: Ubuntu 12.04

I have a directory what has given write permission to group foo. Two users bar and baz are part of the group. Both can successfully write files to the directory. However, baz cannot overwrite a file (i.e. create a file with the same name) that was written by bar. I'm doing the file I/O through Python (csv module), but I don't think that has anything to do with this problem.

How do I set permissions so that bar and baz can overwrite eachother's files in the foo directory?

Thanks.

unix

2 Answers

  1. When user creates file, the default permissions don't allow write to group. You need to change the umask so newly created files will have write permissions for group:

    umask 0002

    To know what is the current umask, run it without args.

    See man umask for more info.

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  2. Best Answer

    You can change the mode of the directory to setgid to ensure that new files are created with the same group as that owning the directory. See this article for more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setuid .

    The command is: chmod g+s /path/to/directory

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