On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 08:11:29AM -0800, Greg Wiley wrote:
> Q: is there some way in Deb to cause new
> files to inherit ownership and permissions?
>
> In particular, I want files created by certain
> users in a certain directory to be owned by
> a group that each belongs to but that is not
> the
Aw, nuts. Brain finally kicked in. The bit I needed
is the setgid bit, not the sticky. Sorry for the noise.
-=greg
Good day-
IIRC, on another Unix, I was able to use the
sticky bit on a directory to cause new entries
in that directory to inherit ownership and
permissions. In Debian, the semantics of the
directory sticky bit are to add additional re-
strictions on modifying the directory's entries.
Q: is ther
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