Re: permissions another question

["Andrew Critchlow" <a_critchlow@hotmail.com>]

Le mercredi 11 octobre 2006 00:04, Jesus Arocho a écrit :
> Our machines have a user defined for each family member and a group called
> family.  If I create a file in a directory for which I have defined family
> as the group, other users cannot access the file because it is not created
> with family as a group.  So I must manually set the group for each file. 
> Can the the system be set so that files created under a particular
> directory will be allowed access by all members of the group defined for
> that directory?
 
>chmod g+s on the directory.
>Every files and dirs will inherit the group.

 

This doesn't seem to work for me, if i create say /test and then /test/file I then use the command "chmod g+s test", now when I look at file using "ls -l" the group permissions for the file are still the same as they were originally?

Am I doing something wrong?

 

thanks