ChadDavis wrote:
Hello. I need to know how the group ownership of a file is decided in
debian. Also, is it the same for all linux systems?
All Linux (and probably Unix) filesystems store a group ID number (gid)
on a per-file basis. The gid is looked up in /etc/group to get the
textual group name you're used to seeing.
All users have a primary group membership as well as any number of
secondary group memberships. (use the /usr/bin/id command to get that
info) When a user creates a file, that file's group owner is set to the
users primary group.
You can change the group ownership of a file with the /usr/bin/chown or
/usr/bin/chgrp commands. You can change the group membership of a user
with the /usr/sbin/usermod command.
Michael Schurter
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