On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 02:43:16AM -0700, Nate Amsden wrote: > the limit is 32, it is on slink, assume it is on potato as well. to > eliminate the need to change owner or group every time anybody copies > into a user's home directory(or any directory for that matter) make the > directory suid, and sgid. that way all files in that directory should > inherit the same ownership as the directory itself. not quite, sgid will cause new files to inherit the group of the parent directory a la BSD. but nothing will cause the owner to be changed. suid on directories does nothing. only way to change owners is to be root or have CAP_CHOWN. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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