Michiel Boland wrote: > On BSD, group ownership of a file is inherited from the parent directory. > So if you have a directory that is owned by 'wheel', any file you create > in there will have owner 'wheel' too, regardless of any groups the creator > is in.
on BSD? on any unix, IF the SGID bit is set for the directory. # mkdir test # chown :users test # touch test/foo # ls -l test/foo -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 29 17:24 test/foo # chmod g+s test # ls -ld test drwxr-sr-x 2 root users 1024 Mar 29 17:24 test # touch test/foo2 # ls -l test/foo2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root users 0 Mar 29 17:24 test/foo2 # uname -s -r Linux 2.4.19-pre4 > [...] > > Cheers > Michiel Thorben
