Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> writes: > 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 Right. The gid bit trick works fine unless you're running some set of commands that may create a bunch of directories. Then I don't think the sgid bit will propagate. -- Rob