Re: sticky directories
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 primary group of any of them.
Under Linux, a directory that is sgid will have its group ownership
inherited by any files created within it. So just set the
directory's group ownership appropriately and `chmod g+s` it.
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