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I want to create a directory, for instance testing-data on CentOS 6.5 Linux version, and have read,write,execute to all the sub-folders and sub-sub-folders and files within them to everyone(all users), not to any specific group. In fact, whenever a new file is written into any of these sub-folders without using chmod 777 the new file should be able to be accessed by any user.

Is this possible?

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    World writable (and executable!) files, while possible, are generally undesirable, as they present a significant security risk to all users on the system. What is the use-case for this requirement?
    – Thomas N
    May 11, 2016 at 20:38
  • @derobert the question or the answer? The answer covers both g+s and ACLs, and the question doesn't know about g+s.
    – muru
    May 11, 2016 at 21:19
  • @muru Oh! It does, somehow I missed the ACL discussion in the answer. It is indeed a duplicate then.
    – derobert
    May 11, 2016 at 21:32

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Yes it is possible. umask or setfacl both can do this.

sudo mkdir /everyone                #create the folder   
sudo chmod 777 /everyone            #to grant access for everyone to the folder
sudo setfacl -m d:m::rwx       #set file access control list

Added the d option to set default ACL - all the new files will have the default permissions.
And umask can help as well.

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