Inheriting group ownership under Red Hat Linux?

[Matthew Melvin]

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 at 10:51am (-0700), Carl Riches wrote:

> 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.
> 

Although it sounds like the chmod has fixed your problem, it may be worth
noting that if you mount a filesystem with the 'grpid' option under linux it
will behave the same as you would expect from your other *nx systems.

M.

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