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I have a bunch of users who use AFP to access a communal volume on Panther Server 10.3.8. We were having problems with files being created by default rw-r–r– so that only the owners could write them. In order to get round this I’ve turned on ‘inherit permissions’ on the server.
This works great for files – when a new file is created the owner is set to be the person creating, but the group and the permissions are inherited from the enclosing directory (which is set to be group writeable).
The problem I have is that when new directories (as opposed to new files) are created they seem to be set so that the owner is the same as the enclosing directory (unlike with files). This means that if a user creates a new directory they are unable to change permissions on the directory as they are not the owner – in particular the group cannot be changed. This makes it impossible for them to create a directory with a different group to the enclosing directory.
Why does creating directories behave different to files with AFP inherit permissions? Is there a way to change this? For my purposes it makes AFP inherit permissions next to useless.
Justin Powell
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