How to set umask for a folder and it's subfolder?

Posted by Cyril N. on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Cyril N.
Published on 2013-06-27T14:11:27Z Indexed on 2013/06/27 16:23 UTC
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I'm working on the same directory with some friends and they access it via SSH.

I added us in the same group and defined a sticky bit to keep the user:group values the same.

But when a user create a file/folder, the Write attribute is not defined for the group, disabling other to write it/on it.

How can I define the Umask to add the Write value for groups in the specific directory and it's subfolders ?

I tried to find some help before, but I only saw helps for Fedora/CentOs, and I'm using Debian Squeeze.

Thanks for your help

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