We are running into a problem that did not occur under our Unix systems:
inheriting group ownership on files. The problem is that a file created
in a directory does not inherit the group ownership of the directory.
Rather it gets the group ownership of the user that created the file.
Under our other Unix systems, a file would get the group ownership of the
directory where it was created.
For example, let's say that there is directory:
drwxrwxr-x 2 root fugroup 4096 Jun 8 11:45 fubar/
Let's say that user "riches" creates a file in directory fubar/. The
primary group for user "riches" is "staff", but that user also belongs
to "fugroup" and can write to the fubar/ directory. The file created in
that directory is owned by "riches:staff", not "riches:fugroup".
This breaks some things, e.g. file sharing between a working group.
Does anyone know how to work around this? That is, is this a known
problem or do we have some sort of configuration problem?
Thanks,
Carl
Carl G. Riches
Software Engineer
Department of Mathematics
Box 354350 voice: 206-543-5082 or 206-616-3636
University of Washington fax: 206-543-0397
Seattle, WA 98195-4350 internet: riches@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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