Re: Maintaining group ownership of new files

[Upayavira <uv@upaya.co.uk>]

Eric Gaumer wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 06:21 +0100, Upayavira wrote:
>  
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've used a freeBSD server where, when a file is created, that file 
> > becomes owned by the group who owns the containing folder.
> >
> > However, I cannot seem to make this happen on a Debian box. Anyone know how?
> >
> > Basically, I want to 'partition' a server using Unix groups. If a member 
> > of a group creates, uses modifies a file, that file is usable, 
> > modifiable, by other members of their group.
> >
> > I of course will be a member of all of these groups.
> >
> > Any ideas how to make this happen?
> >
> > Regards, Upayavira
> >    
> If you setgid the directory, all files will inherit group ownership. So
> just create the directory and give it group writable permissions (chmod
> 2770) and make sure you chown root.group the directory. 
Fab - that bit works.

> You'll probably
> need to change the default umask as well
>  
How can I do that?

> You could also go the ACL route if you're using 2.6. This will surely
> give you the flexibility you need.
>  
I'm using Sarge at the mo. Dunno which Kernel I'm using. ACLs look 
interesting.

Thanks for this.

Upayavira