Re: Setting the group ID on execution on directories

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

dadecal@s2-selling.com wrote:
>I have seen Debian's default behaviour is to set the group ID on
>execution on directories. I don't really understand the effect this
>has, could somebody please explain me?

Looking in 'info chmod', 'File permissions', 'Mode structure':

# For directories on some systems, put files created in the directory
# into the same group as the directory, no matter what group the user
# who creates them is in.

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]