Rob Browning writes ("Re: Shadow problems"): > Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > You can ofcourse make the new directory setgid (chmod g+s). All files > > created in that directory will have their gid set to that of the directory.. > > > > But I can see that using newgrp might be more convenient > > Right. The gid bit trick works fine unless you're running some set of > commands that may create a bunch of directories. Then I don't think > the sgid bit will propagate.
It does. Ian.