File Sharing Permissions to Documents Without Having to Assign Each?

Question

Not sure where else to ask this.
Background - work environment. Small 3 person office. Airport network. All computers Duo2Core with 10.5.1.
On my iMac - I have this configuration: Home>Public>Shared>Clients> Abel thru Zulu - (separate folders for each client), and inside each client folder, subfolders such as "Correspondence", "Documents", "Research" and so forth.
When I create a new document, for example - Clients>Charlie>Documents: "Work Paper", and I want my staff to have read/write access in order to revise or supplement "Work Paper", I have to manually Get Info for the documet, type in my password, unlock the little lock, and assign Read/Write.
I understand the security aspect, but for the Clients folder ONLY, I'd like any new document I create and place in there to automatically have Read/Write permissions for my staff.
Know little to nothing about Apple Script, but that's probably the only way to work around the routine of manually going to "Get Info" six dozen or more times a day.
So - anybody got a script that will do the trick? If so, a little instruction on setting it up would also be most appreciated.

Answer 1

I've been fiddling with sharing things between my two admin users on my computer, so that both have read and write permissions to files. I seem to have gotten it right, anyway, I just added a couple of jpegs to the folder from my primary account, logged into the other admin account, opened a jpeg, edited it and saved it with no problem, and did the same with my test account. Perhaps this will help you.
1. The users have to be members of the same group, in my case I picked the group "staff" since both admin users are members of that group, as well as the test account
2. I created a folder in the Sharing folder, called it "readwrite"
3. I then launched Terminal and entered this command:
NoobiX:~ francine$ chmod +a "staff allow write,append,writeattr,writeextattr,fileinherit,directoryinherit" /Users/Shared/readwrite
hit Return. Then did this command:
NoobiX:~ francine$ chmod +a "staff allow addfile,add_subdirectory,delete_child,writeattr,writeextattr,directoryinherit" /Users/Shared/readwrite
hit Return again. Note there are spaces between chmod, +a, the permissions list, and the path.
I then added the files to the readwrite folder, logged in to the other staff accounts, and successfully edited the added files. I then returned to my account, opened one of the edited files and made another change and saved it. Looks like it is working as intended.
Francine
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