change ownership issue

[Andrew Bacchi]

Try chgrp on the directory holding the file.

Blackburn, Marvin wrote:

>That wont allow overwrite nor delete :( 
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>>-----Original Message-----
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>>[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Bacchi
>>Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 11:56 AM
>>To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
>>Subject: Re: change ownership issue
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>>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.
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>>chgrp commongroup filename
>>chmod g+w filename
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>>Blackburn, Marvin wrote:
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>>>We have users that create files with a certain name.  
>>>We also have applications which often need to overwrite 
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>>these files --
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>>>not change the contents.
>>>However, if the users have created the file -- the 
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>>application does not
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>>>have the pemissions to replace it,
>>>and the user cant change the ownership on his on.
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>>>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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Andrew Bacchi
Staff Systems Programmer
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
phone: 518 276-6415  fax: 518 276-2809

http://www.rpi.edu/~bacchi/