Re: default group ownership of a file

2006-04-07 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Thursday 06 April 2006 08:01, 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? The group of the new file depends on the directory it was created in. If the directory is setgid, then the group will b

Re: default group ownership of a file

2006-04-06 Thread Joe
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? To actually answer your question: files are saved with the user and group ownerships of the effective user. For almost all applications, this is the user

SOLVED: group use of a Windows game in Wine (WAS: default group ownership of a file)

2006-04-06 Thread hendrik
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? > >

Re: default group ownership of a file

2006-04-06 Thread Albert Dengg
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 01:58:55AM +1000, Pascal Hakim wrote: ... > That should only happen if you have the setgid flag set on the > parent directory. ah sorry i forgot... i _have_ learned that sometime in the past... now that you mention it i remeber ;) yours albert pgpdH2FXP8c4L.pgp Descripti

Re: default group ownership of a file

2006-04-06 Thread Mike McCarty
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/gr

Re: default group ownership of a file

2006-04-06 Thread Pascal Hakim
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? > >

Re: default group ownership of a file

2006-04-06 Thread Michael Schurter
Albert Dengg wrote: 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. Excellent point. Thanks for th

Re: default group ownership of a file

2006-04-06 Thread Albert Dengg
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) o

Re: default group ownership of a file

2006-04-06 Thread Michael Schurter
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 gro

default group ownership of a file

2006-04-06 Thread ChadDavis
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?