On Fri November 26 2004 17:25, William Astle wrote: <snip> > You can force the group of the files in the directory to match the group > of the directory by setting the SGID bit. If the SUID bit worked > similarly for directories, you could use that to accomplish what you > wanted from the user owning the file perspective. It doesn't behave that > way, though. Even with that, however, you would still have the umask > problem; whatever the user sets the umask to still applies to the file > after it was created so if the user's umask allows group write/read on > the file, they'll still be able to read/modify the file (even if they > can't delete it). > > All nice and straightforward, eh?
Actually, yes, that makes sense. I forgot about some *nix permissions fundamentals and now that I've been reminded it all fits into place. Fortunately, it's not a big deal that the user not be able to modify created files this time. So sticky bits will do nicely (I've never actually used them before, so this will be a good excuse to practice). Thanks to everyone who contributed. Sincerely, Curtis S. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
