Question

when I create a new folder named “child” (for example) like this:

parent/child/

the child folder, doesn’t have the same permission of the parent! I already changed them, to the parent, using chmod -R +rw parent but each new folder created doesn’t get the same values!! I want +rw for ‘everyone’ on that new folder.

What should I do?

Thanks in advance!!

Answer 1

As far as I know there are no inheritance mechanism, but you can use umask for your case.

Example of how it works:

$ umask
022
$ mkdir test
$ cd test
$ mkdir 1
$ ls -la 1
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  2 receiver  wheel   68 23 May 16:57 .
drwxrwxrwx  4 receiver  wheel  136 23 May 16:57 ..

Above we have 022 masked out. Let’s set umask to 000:

$ umask 000
$ mkdir 2
$ ls -la 2
total 0
drwxrwxrwx  2 receiver  wheel   68 23 May 16:58 .
drwxrwxrwx  5 receiver  wheel  170 23 May 16:58 ..