Brian Kimball wrote:
Ext2/ext3 filesystems have built-in support for this behavior, but it's not turned on by default in debian. Remount your filesystems with the bsdgroups option. This is a lot cleaner than trying to maintain setgid bits on all your directories and messing with umasks, which aren't honored by all applications.Wow. Now that is a _really_ useful thing to know, and is going to help me a tremendous amount. Thanks for that.
See the manpage for mount for more details.
Seen and absorbed. Regards, Upayavira
On Sunday 24 October 2004 10:21 pm, 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