umask, ACL inheritance and setgid +s not working with copy from flash drive in nautilus

[Derek Maciel]

So, are you asking that if you had a file X and you copied it to your
flash drive, edited it, and brought it back to your machine as file Y,
you want to know how to make file Y the same permissions as the folder
it's now residing in?

On 14 September 2010 16:13, Andy Graybeal <andy.graybeal at casanueva.com> wrote:
>>
>> Depends how you copy the file... in this case, it looks as though the
>> copy tried to preserve the traditional Posix permissions and therefore
>> ruined your mask.  Was this copy done by nautilus?  You need to copy
>> files wihout preserving their original attributes (at least,
>> permissions) if you want inheritance to work correctly.
>>
>
> I'm still processing what you said.  The copy was done by nautilus.  How
> do I copy files without preserving their original attributes?   I'm
> sorry if this sounds like a lame question.
>
> -Andy
>
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