Re: Shadow problems

[Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>]

You (Rob Browning) wrote:
> Hmm, I often use newgrp when I'm about to do a set of actions where I
> want to make sure all the new files get a particular group.  For
> example, say I'm building a package in my home directory and I want
> all the files created to be group src because I'm likely to move them
> to /usr/src/ later.
> 
> Is there some other way to achieve this?

You can ofcourse make the new directory setgid (chmod g+s). All files
created in that directory will have their gid set to that of the directory..

But I can see that using newgrp might be more convenient

Mike.
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