For some reason, setting "2775" doesn't work under all OS's while settings "g+s" does. Linux doesn't seem to have this problem, but I've seen it on Solaris and Irix. -Steve -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Carl Riches Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 12:51 PM To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Re: Inheriting group ownership under Red Hat Linux? On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Pete Nesbitt wrote: > > Hi, > What Unix are you using? Solaris works the same as RH. This is how it worked under Ultrix, and later under OSF1/Digital Unix/ Compaq Tru64 Unix. > Anyway, use "chmod 2775 dir_name" (not 1775 which sets suid) > That sets the directory to SGID and will result in any files or sub-dirs > created within 'dir_name' will have the creators owner and the directories > group. > If you prefer letters instead of the nuimber permissions, > it is "chmod g+s dir_name" Thanks. Actually, I was able to answer this question myself doing a web search on the terms "linux inherit group ownership". It took writing to this mailing list before I was able to make a coherent enough statement of the problem to do the web search. > You may also want to run over the existing files with > "chown -R group_name dir_name" > -- 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 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
