[K12OSN] File ownership help

[Peter Scheie]

You may be thinking of the group sticky bit.  If you set this on a
directory, the group for any files created in that directory will be the
same as the group of the directory itself.  So, for example if you have
a directory /common and the group for it is users, and I, with ID
petre:petre, meaning my primary group is also called petre, put a file
in that directory, the group for that file will be users, not petre.  To
insure that everyone in the users group can read & write that file,
check the default umask, which strips rights away from files; hint,
you'll want the umask to be 002 if the group will need write permissions
for the files created. You set the stick bit with chmod:

chmod g+s common

HTH

Petre

mrok12osn at eastgranby.k12.ct.us wrote:
> A while back I remember reading about a way to always assign ownership of
> a file to the owner of the directory regardless of who the creating user
> is.  I cannot remember where I read this.  Can someone point me to the
> document or tell me how to do this.
> 
> Mark Orenstein
> East Granby, CT School System
> 
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