Linux default file permissions

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slushpuppy

Hi All,

I have read several online threads regarding umask, and its a great way to enforce default permissions, but I need more!

The process is, a user drop a file on my server via FTP, then a server process needs to read, and execute the file.

The user account and the application account is different accounts, but the do belong to the same group.

This means that I also cannot do a chmod 775 as the application user because I'm not the owner.

In the end the only way was to schedule a cron as root to set chmod 775 permissions recursively on the directories.

This is not my preferred method, and I would like something more concrete without dependencies like knowing the root password or cron daemon that needs to be running.

Is there no way to create a "trigger" of some sort that executed as soon as a file is received from a specific user or in a certain directory?

Regards
Stephan (slushpuppy)

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