I work on a webapp with a friend. I try to setup permissions on the server (Centos 4) in a way that we can both work on the same files, without permissions problems.

Let's say the project root is /project.

1. I created a group "thegroup" and added my friend and I to it.
2. I changed permissions so that every files and folders created in the project would belong to thegroup:
- chgrp -R thegroup /project
- chmod -R g+s /project
3. I changed my umask to 002 so that so that every files and folders I created in the project would be readable and writable by the group. I added "umask 002" to my .bash_profile.
4. In phpEd, I set "Default permissions for folders" to 775 and "Default permissions for files" to 664

But if I upload a file from phpEd, its permission are 644, not 664, the file is not writable for my friend!

What am I missing?

Thanks!

JL

I think that what you set in .bash_profile has no effect because sftp does not use bash for file operations. At least it's completely up to your sshd daemon and does not depend on the IDE.

Yes you right! But the problem is still not solved!

Anyway, I installed Subversion and work through it with my friend now instead of working directly with the files. Works great.

working directly with your friend on the same set of files, sooner or later you will override each other's files, so it seems that using source control is the only way

@jl In my experience the permission setting work fine when using SFTP, but not with FTP. Change your connection to SFTP (you may need shell access for this to work) and see if that solves your problem.

I was using SFTP, but thanks anyway.

putting Default permissions for SFTP to 0775 or 775 or 0664 or 664 will always put them as 775 no matter what.
This is proving quite problematic for me.
Is there a plan on having this fixed anytime soon?

The permission settings are working fine for me. I am using build 5966 (I am a couple behind).

working directly with your friend on the same set of files,
sooner or later you will override each other's files,
so it seems that using source control is the only way
Thanks,,,