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.


Reply via email to