On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 05:38:49PM +0200, Albert Dengg wrote: > Hi > > On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 10:10:41AM -0500, Michael Schurter wrote: > > 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. > well that is not _completly_ true... > at least in my expirience if the user has write permisions in the diectory > only > because of a certain group membership (for example in /usr/src with the > src group) the gid of the file is set to respective group and not the > users primary group.
That should only happen if you have the setgid flag set on the parent directory. Cheers, Pasc -- Pascal Hakim 0403 411 672 Do Not Bend
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