On Saturday 24 February 2007 16:12, Sylvester Lykkehus wrote:
> M Harris wrote:
> > On Friday 23 February 2007 10:55, Sylvester Lykkehus wrote:
> >> The reason for this, is that currently when zly creates a new file,
> >> johndoe does not have access to it.
> >
> >     Is read access ok?
> >
> >     Try making the directory    chmod 0774
>
> The thing is, I don't want "others" to have access to the directory at all.
>
> In fact, to simplify the question:
> Is it possible to define, that when I create files in a specific
> directory, the files will not be (ch)owned to the default group, but
> instead as another group which I am a member of?

Make the directory sgid, with "chmod g+s dirname"

You might also want to play around with the default ACL

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