Inheriting group ownership under Red Hat Linux?

[Carl Riches]

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

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