change ownership issue

[Andrew Bacchi]

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?
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>Marvin Blackburn
>Systems Administrator
>Glen Raven
>"He's no failure.  He's not dead yet" --William Lloyd George  
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Andrew Bacchi
Staff Systems Programmer
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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