mount problem

[Aaron Knister]

A chgrp/chmod should be persistent through reboots, unless you're 
changing permissions of something in /dev (which you're not)...that can 
get funny.

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Friday 26 January 2007 15:14, Craig White wrote:
>   
>>> I simply want users to be able to write to those directories.  I hate
>>> having to do things as root when it isn't necessary or advisable for
>>> security. The /mnt/Holding one is the vital one.  That was deliberately
>>> set up with huge amounts of space for this purpose.
>>>       
>> ----
>> you might want to consider doing things like this...
>>
>> if all 'users' are members of 'users' group
>>
>> chgrp users /mnt/Holding -R
>> chmod g+s /mnt/Holding -R
>> chmod g+w /mnt/Holding -R
>>
>> bear in mind that users with a default umask of 022 will create files
>> with a 644 and folders with 755 permissions which means that other users
>> will not be able to 'write' into those directories or over those files.
>>
>>     
> If I chgrp and chmod, wouldn't that last for one session only?  IOW - Wouldn't 
> it be overwritten when I boot up tomorrow?
>
> Anne
>