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Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>> >i understand that you can set the sticky bit on a directory so that
>> >everything created in that directory will be set to that group, but what i
>> >don't know how to do, is make that recursive.
>> 
>> # chmod -R 2775 .
>> 
>> Thereafter, that mode will propogate when a user creates a directory 
>> below it, _if_ that user's umask is set appropriately.  In this case, 
>> you probably want it to be 002.
>
>by the way, that's not the sticky bit, that's the SGID bit.

Yes, thank you; I read the intent and didn't mentally register the 
incorrect term.  To the original poster, please note that my 
instructions are correct for your intended purpose, but Mr. Day is 
correct about the term.  

- -d

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David Talkington

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