[X-Unix] Is it possible to set unique umask for folder?

[Kirk McElhearn]

On 11/24/04 1:25 PM, "Simon Forster" <simon-lists at ldml.com> wrote:

> We have some files being saved to a directory (by the Finder IIRC).
> These files have default permissions of 755 - which is Mac OS X's
> default from what I can gather. What we'd like is that files saved to
> this particular directory have universal read and write privileges
> (777). For fairly obvious reasons, we'd prefer not to change the system
> wide defaults, just the mode for this one directory.
> 
> Is this possible? Can one have a directory specific umask?

As far as I understand, no - umask is a system-wide setting.
> 
> I can write a cron script to change permissions every 30 minutes. I
> imagine I can write a folder action script which'll run a chmod when
> something's added to the folder - and presumably I can write a shell
> (or Python) script to do a similar task. However, these options seem
> inelegant as they're fixing the problem after the event.
> 
> I've had a look around and have learnt a reasonable amount about
> permissions and umasks - but I haven't found a direct answer to this
> (simple) question.

The AppleScript solution seems to be the best, since it happens as soon as
new items are added.
 
 
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