On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
>
>
> Shlomi Fish wrote:
>
> >Done. Now the tree (/iglu/cgi-bin/lxr) is chowned to mulix.lxr where lxr
> >is a group that for the moment contains just me and you. If anybody else,
> >wishes to join, we can add him if we find a good reason to.
> >
> >Have fun! I'll put the lxr.conf on the SF CVS.
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> > Shlomi Fish
> >
> When giving a bunch of people permissions via a group on a project, it
> is a good idea to give all the directories the sgid group (i.e., run :
> "find /iglu/cgi-bin/lxr -type d -exec chgrp lxr \{\} \; -exec chmod
> g+rwxs \{\} \;")
>
> this way, all new files created in this directory will automatically
> have the lxr group, even if it's not the primary group for the user.
>
Well, I was not aware of the use of the SGID flag for this case. Fine, it
will be done. Muli, do you have root on iglu.org.il or do I need to do it
on my own?
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
> IMPORTANT NOTICE:
> In this email I suggested raising the SGID on DIRECTORIES, not files.
> The distinction should be very clear, and any use of the SGID or SUID
> flags should be done very carefully.
>
> Shachar
>
>
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