[Cialug] directory permissions - a little help?

[David Champion]

Nathan C. Smith wrote:
> I want to set permissions on a directory (actually a subdirectory) to world
> readable and writeable whenever a file is written there.  I must be missing
> something because I thought that's what umask was for.  files continue to be
> written into the directory with root-only permissions.
> 
> In Windows permissions I would stop the inheritance and give the directory
> it's own permissions, I'm not sure how to do this in linux.
> 
> Can anybody point me in the right (rwx) direction?  Thanks.
> 
> -Nate

chmod o+s <dirname>

-dc