On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Patrick Mauro wrote: > > > >what is the benefit of /home having the setgid bit set? > > As I understand it, it means that any directories created underneath > /home will have the same settings as home (groups, permissions, etc) > Any file (or directory) created under the set-gid directory will have the same group as the set-gid directory. The permissions will depend on the value of umask as usual. bye :) Anmol