One trick I've used to set

Abhishek Reddy — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 10:58:47 +0000

One trick I've used to set umask for operations under a particular directory is to mount it with sshfs -oumask=002.

Thanks for the advice, I've

JeevesBond — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:42:00 +0000

Thanks for the advice, I've been investigating a bit further.

EDIT: Now I don't think it's possible to mount a directory to another directory.

It is possible, you can use mount --bind /home/dave/working_directory /working_directory, for example. There's also mount -o remount,<some_other_options> /working_directory, to remount a filesystem with different options.

This is all cool stuff, which I didn't know before, but only a few file systems allow the umask option and EXT3 isn't one of them (which is the filesystem I have to use).

EXT3 does support acl lists though, that might be the easiest way around this. Thanks for the help!

Could you setup a mount

teammatt3 — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 01:08:00 +0000

Could you setup a mount point in fstab and change the umask in the options column?

EDIT: Now I don't think it's possible to mount a directory to another directory. Maybe you could use a big flash drive, or create a separate partition for that.