[TriLUG] StarOffice and UPG strangeness

[Janyne Kizer]

Samba is not installed.  The cron jobs might be a good workaround. 
Thanks!

This is what is going on.  All of the users have their UPG and many of
them are also in a "staff" group.  Members of the "staff" group have a
shared directory.  When people save files from vi, pico, nedit, gimp,
etc. to the shared directory, the group is set to shared just as it
should be.  If they save the file to their home directory, the group is
set to their UPG.  If they open FILE1.TXT from their home directory,
edit it and then decide to save it to the shared directory, FILE1.TXT is
given the "staff" group as it should be -- UNLESS the file was opened
from their home directory with SO an then saved to the shared
directory.  In that particular case, the file has the same settings as
it did in the home directory.  

Note the test_after.doc file below.  It was created with SO and saved in
my home directory.  It was then reopened and edited and then saved to
the shared directory.  

-rw-rw-r--    1 wkme    staff          63 Jun 20 14:05 nedit2test
-rw-rw-r--    1 wed23   staff          39 Mar 28 08:06 newfile.txt
-rw-rw-r--    1 ets     staff          15 Mar 29 14:11 test2.doc
-rw-rw-r--    1 wkme    wkme         7680 Jun 20 14:16 test_after.doc
-rw-rw-r--    1 wkme    staff        2551 Jun 20 13:46 testing123.jpg

Jon Carnes wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Janyne Kizer"
> 
> > I am using RH 7.2 and SO 5.2.   We have a shared directory set up for
> > people to use
> >
> (http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.2-Manual/ref-guide/s1-users-
> groups-private-groups.html).
> > When someone saves a SO file into there home directory, edits that file
> > and then saves it to the shared directory, the permissions are the same
> > as on the file in their home directory.  All other programs seem to work
> > fine (Gimp, Nedit, pico, vi, etc.) but StarOffice insist on keeping the
> > group the User Private Group.  ARG!  Any suggestions?
> > --
> >
> Are you using Samba to move and store the files?  Samba has some nice
> options for forcing the user/group permissions to the proper settings.  If
> SO is by-passing that... then you can use a cron job to monitor and fix the
> writes.  I run three cron jobs every 5 minutes that check on various folders
> and files to insure that they are maintained properly.
> 
> Here is an example of one,
> 
> cat maintain_vol_rights
>   #!/bin/bash
>   #
>   # This script insures that the rights to various special volumes stay
> correct
>   #   and are maintained recursively in the subdirectories.
>   #
>   # Insure that the rights to volume MIS stay correct
>   chmod -R 0770 /vol/mis/Admin/*
>   chgrp -R mis  /vol/mis/Admin/*
>   #
>   # Insure that the rights to volume /vol/docs/docsrc stay correct
>   chmod -R 0770 /vol/docs/docsrc
>   chgrp -R docsrc /vol/docs/docsrc
>   #
>   # Maintain the rights to volume /vol/product_mgt/Pegasus
>   #chmod -R 0770 /vol/product_mgt/Pegasus
>   #chgrp -R pegasus /vol/product_mgt/Pegasus
>   #
>   # Maintain the rights to volume /vol/product_mgt/Orion
>   chmod -R 0770 /vol/product_mgt/Orion
>   chgrp -R orion /vol/product_mgt/Orion
> 
> We allow access to files via Samba/NFS/FTP/HTTP on our main server and if
> the users are not careful (and they never are) they can easily muck up the
> rights to files that they are moving around.  The above script watches over
> the group rights for various special purpose directories and subdirectories.
> 
> I've seen other folks use the /etc/fstab table to mount a filesystem with
> special options enforcing the rights to the files and directories on that
> filesystem.
> 
> Good Luck
> 
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Janyne Kizer
CNE-3, CNE-4, CNE-5
Systems Programmer Administrator
NC State University, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences
Extension Information Technology