change ownership issue
McDougall, Marshall (FSH)
MarMcDouga at gov.mb.ca
Tue Mar 14 19:07:54 UTC 2006
After you do the group memberships, try from the parent directory:
chmod -R 2775 the_folder_you_want
Regards, Marshall
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Subject: RE: change ownership issue
That wont allow overwrite nor delete :(
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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.
>
> 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
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