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Re: updating GID owner of directories



On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Wichert Akkerman wrote:

> Previously Robert Millan wrote:
> > GID of /tmp was 1000 and hasn't been updated. I guess this is a bug
> > but i'm not sure if this is the expected behaviour, could you
> > clarify this?
>
> It is expected and normal behaviour. dpkg only sets the uid/gid of
> a directory when creating it. After that the adminsitrator is free
> to change ownership.

Maybe a new --force-update-dir-permissions?


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