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Author: Shawn Badger
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Subject: Re: Android file creation permissions
I can, but since the files are set with a 600 permission that wont work. :(



On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 9:19 AM, JD Austin <> wrote:
> You can deal with this on the server by marking a directory setgid (g+s)
> will make new files inherit the group ownership of the directory I believe.
>
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> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Dazed_75 <> wrote:
>>
>> While I am totally unable to answer your question, there is an obvious
>> question to ask you.  Have you tried any OTHER text editor to see if it have
>> the same problem or if the problem is isolated to Jotta (actually Jota I
>> think)?
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 8:23 AM, Shawn Badger <> wrote:
>>>
>>> I have an Android tablet running Cyanogenmod 7 that is using
>>> CifsManager to mount a share. That all works well, but the problem I
>>> am having is when an application (Jotta Text editor in this case)
>>> creates a file on the share it creates it with a 600 file permission,
>>> but when I create it from a terminal it creates the file with a 666
>>> file permission which is what I want. I am trying to figure out how to
>>> change the way the application is saving the files. I have set the
>>> smb.conf so the default file mode  is 666 and also put file_mode=666
>>> in the options for CifsManager, but the applications seem to ignore
>>> those settings.  Does anyone know how to get the applications (without
>>> changing the modifying it) to stop overriding the default?
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