Re: default group ownership of a file

2006-04-07 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Thursday 06 April 2006 08:01, ChadDavis wrote: Hello. I need to know how the group ownership of a file is decided in debian. Also, is it the same for all linux systems? The group of the new file depends on the directory it was created in. If the directory is setgid, then the group will be

default group ownership of a file

2006-04-06 Thread ChadDavis
Hello. I need to know how the group ownership of a file is decided in debian. Also, is it the same for all linux systems?

Re: default group ownership of a file

2006-04-06 Thread Michael Schurter
ChadDavis wrote: Hello. I need to know how the group ownership of a file is decided in debian. Also, is it the same for all linux systems? All Linux (and probably Unix) filesystems store a group ID number (gid) on a per-file basis. The gid is looked up in /etc/group to get the textual

Re: default group ownership of a file

2006-04-06 Thread Albert Dengg
Hi On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 10:10:41AM -0500, Michael Schurter wrote: ChadDavis wrote: Hello. I need to know how the group ownership of a file is decided in debian. Also, is it the same for all linux systems? All Linux (and probably Unix) filesystems store a group ID number (gid) on a

Re: default group ownership of a file

2006-04-06 Thread Michael Schurter
Albert Dengg wrote: at least in my expirience if the user has write permisions in the diectory only because of a certain group membership (for example in /usr/src with the src group) the gid of the file is set to respective group and not the users primary group. Excellent point. Thanks for

Re: default group ownership of a file

2006-04-06 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 05:38:49PM +0200, Albert Dengg wrote: Hi On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 10:10:41AM -0500, Michael Schurter wrote: ChadDavis wrote: Hello. I need to know how the group ownership of a file is decided in debian. Also, is it the same for all linux systems? All Linux

Re: default group ownership of a file

2006-04-06 Thread Mike McCarty
Michael Schurter wrote: ChadDavis wrote: Hello. I need to know how the group ownership of a file is decided in debian. Also, is it the same for all linux systems? All Linux (and probably Unix) filesystems store a group ID number (gid) on a per-file basis. The gid is looked up in

Re: default group ownership of a file

2006-04-06 Thread Albert Dengg
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 01:58:55AM +1000, Pascal Hakim wrote: ... That should only happen if you have the setgid flag set on the parent directory. ah sorry i forgot... i _have_ learned that sometime in the past... now that you mention it i remeber ;) yours albert pgpdH2FXP8c4L.pgp

SOLVED: group use of a Windows game in Wine (WAS: default group ownership of a file)

2006-04-06 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 05:38:49PM +0200, Albert Dengg wrote: Hi On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 10:10:41AM -0500, Michael Schurter wrote: ChadDavis wrote: Hello. I need to know how the group ownership of a file is decided in debian. Also, is it the same for all linux systems? All Linux

Re: default group ownership of a file

2006-04-06 Thread Joe
ChadDavis wrote: Hello. I need to know how the group ownership of a file is decided in debian. Also, is it the same for all linux systems? To actually answer your question: files are saved with the user and group ownerships of the effective user. For almost all applications, this is the