Directory Permissions

[kjemison]

Hello,

I have created a directory called /data. I created a user called "backup" and gave ownership of the /data directory to backup; backup is a member of the wheel group

I chmod the /data directory for the group to rwx - chmod g=rwx /data

My issue is this: any previously entered directory will show the permissions change. But, if I create a new directory under the /data directory... the permissions are only rw instead of the rwx that I want.

I know I am just not remembering the simple switch to do this.

A little help would be appreciated.
Thank you
Kell

 

[swallowtail_butterfly]

umask(2)? Try
$ umask 002; mkdir foo

 

[fluca1978]

Even a set-group-id flag on the directory will perform the trick:

chmod g+s /data

and all file created under the directory will have the same group as the directory itself.

 

[kjemison]

Thank you