Set World Access On a File in Linux

[Jorge Cocomess]

Hi,

How can I modify an account for user A, so that everytime he writes a file with World wide access? Once the file is created, I can manually do a chmod 777 file_name.txt -- But this is manual process. I would like to setup user "A" to write with world wide access, or maybe perhaps, I can modify the directory to have world access instead.

Any ideas??

Thank you in advance.

J

[Ivan Ferreira · Accepted solution]

Edit the users profile ($HOME/.bashrc or $HOME/.bash_profile) and add a line like this:

umask 000

This will create files with world wide write access.

BUT THIS IS NOT GOOD! ITS A INSECURE METHOS OF SHARING FILES.

You should plan a good group membership structure instead of allowing world wide access to files.