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inheriting permissions

Asked by crakken

I have an ext4 partition that I use to store data on. There is a music folder that I would like all of my users on the local machine to share. The problem that I have is that whenever a user adds a file to the folder, only that user has the permissions to read the metadata in the file. I had to run chmod -R 777 on the folder to change the 132 files that i originally placed in there, but subsequent files dont inherit the permissions of the folder. Is there any way to solve this besides building a script to run the chmod -R command before launching songbird or rythmbox?

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Marc Stewart (marc.stewart) said : 		#1

This seems a bit like the situation described in Brainstorm Idea 3916:
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/3916/

The most promising solution (that didn't involve using an NTFS partition instead, which is what I use) was to use BindFS to remount with fixed permissions:
http://code.google.com/p/bindfs/

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crakken (mjasinski12000) said : 		#2

thanks. I will try that. It looks promising.