change ownership issue

[McDougall, Marshall (FSH)]

After you do the group memberships,  try from the parent directory:

chmod -R 2775 the_folder_you_want

Regards, Marshall

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[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Blackburn, Marvin
Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 10:59 AM
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Subject: RE: change ownership issue

That wont allow overwrite nor delete :( 

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> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Bacchi
> Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 11:56 AM
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> Subject: Re: change ownership issue
> 
> If it's a manageable number of users, I would create a common 
> group, add 
> all users uid and the application uid to that group.  Then chgrp the 
> file to the common group with write permission.  As you create new 
> users, add them to the common group as well ad their own group.
> 
> chgrp commongroup filename
> chmod g+w filename
> 
> 
> 
> Blackburn, Marvin wrote:
> 
> >We have users that create files with a certain name.  
> >We also have applications which often need to overwrite 
> these files --
> >not change the contents.
> >However, if the users have created the file -- the 
> application does not
> >have the pemissions to replace it,
> >and the user cant change the ownership on his on.
> >
> >Any ideas how I might be able to rectify this?
> >
> >------------------
> >Marvin Blackburn
> >Systems Administrator
> >Glen Raven
> >"He's no failure.  He's not dead yet" --William Lloyd George  
> >
> >
> >  
> >
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