On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 08:11:29AM -0800, Greg Wiley wrote: > Q: is there some way in Deb to cause new > files to inherit ownership and permissions? > > In particular, I want files created by certain > users in a certain directory to be owned by > a group that each belongs to but that is not > the primary group of any of them.
Under Linux, a directory that is sgid will have its group ownership inherited by any files created within it. So just set the directory's group ownership appropriately and `chmod g+s` it. -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. - reverius Innocence is no protection when governments go bad. - Tom Swiss
