Re: SECOND TRY: Re: Group "adm"?

[Ed Cogburn <ecogburn@greene.xtn.net>]

"Eric Gillespie, Jr." wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 12:25:35PM -0400,
> Ed Cogburn <ecogburn@greene.xtn.net> wrote:
> > Ed Cogburn wrote:
> > >
> > >         I've noticed several files in my normal user (ed) home dir,
> > > which, instead of "ed" as group owner, are given the group of "adm".
> > >  These files are all types, a file created by Netscape while
> > > downloading, a sub-dir I created, and a config file (.xscreensaver)
> > > created by another process, as examples.  The user "ed", isn't allowed
> > > to change this, I have to use chown as root to fix things.  Is this
> > > normal?  Why do they get the group of "adm"?
> > >
> 
> This is just a guess, and I don't know how it could have happened, but
> your home directory might belong to group adm. My homedir is SGID, so that
> all files are owned by the same group as it. If yours is set up the same
> way, and I imagine it is, this might be it.

	Thanks for the reply.


/home:
drwxrwsr-x   3 ed       ed           1024 Aug 11  1998 home

	I don't know how the above happened for /home.  What should the
owner/permissions of /home be?

/home/ed:
drwxrwxr-x  30 ed       ed           3072 Oct 15 05:41 ed

	Its not SGID.  Should it be?


	P.S.  The group 'ed' does exist, and it doesn't matter whether user
'ed' is a member of 'adm' or not.  'mkdir temp' in /home/ed (executed by
the user 'ed') always results in the group owner of the temp subdir
being 'adm'.


-- 
Ed C.