On Wednesday 20 September 2006 17:54, James Wilkinson wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > I know there is a way to force files to take on the > > properties/permissions of the directory in which it lives, but I can't > > remember how to do it, and can't find my notes. I presume it's done with > > chmod, but the man page for chmod is totally opaque to me. > > Not only is it obscure, it doesn't even *mention* the use on > directories. > > Any directory with the setgid bit set (e.g. by chmod 2775) will have any > files created in it automatically take the directory's group ID. This is > useful for "project" directories -- you create a suitable group for the > project, chgrp and chmod it appropriately, and anything anyone creates > in there will be owned by the group. > > This doesn't work for the setuid bit, and as far as I know there's no > way to enforce permissions on a per-directory basis. > > See the traditional Red Hat explanation of the "user private group" > scheme that Fedora uses: > http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.3-Manual/ref-guide/s1-users- >groups-private-groups.html > > Hope this helps, > It does, thanks. That's what I was trying to recall. Anne
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