On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Carl Riches wrote: > > 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? Look at the man page for "chmod". You need to set the sticky bit for group on that directory. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
