[plug] default home directory permissions with useradd and webmin

[Shanon Loughton]

Sure.

Its an FTP server only, on an Ubuntu VM.

We want clients to login using 1 login per client, and therefore a
username and directory per client.  Access from the web.

Internally, I want anyone to be able to browse, read/write to all
login's home directories without having to login anywhere.

One username and password would not suffice for the multiple client
side of things.

HTH
Shanon


On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Daniel Pittman<daniel at rimspace.net> wrote:
> Shanon Loughton <autobot at iinet.net.au> writes:
>
>> Im trying to setup a samba share such that ppl on windows clients can
>> read/write to the home directories on the samba ubuntu machine.
>
> Do you mean their own home directories, or other people's home directories?
>
>> You can use adduser or useradd to add users obviously, but where do you
>> change the default home directory permissions from 755 to 777 upon
>> creation/addition?  (without chmod - ing afterwards)
>
> Your permissions, you are doing them wrong.  Seriously, if you intend to set
> all the users home directories to world-writable you may as well just have one
> user account and have everyone working with that.
>
>
> Perhaps you should tell us why you want to do this, and we can help identify a
> better way to solve the problem...
>
> Regards,
>        Daniel
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