Copy files preserving permissions

[sebagr]

Hi,

I have a really annoying problem...

I'm a web developer and have my www inside my home set with permissions 770 and owner <myuser>:www-data. I need this so the web server can read/write in that folder.

Whenever I copy a file within that folder (using Terminal or Nautilus) the new file owner is <myuser>:<myuser>; that is, it doesn't preserve owner information (nor permissions).

I know I can do

copy -p

to preserve them, but I'd like that to be the default behavior (specially working with Nautilus, which I use a lot).

Is there any way of changing this?

Many thanks in advance!