From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 22 15:31:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.clientlogic.com (ns.clientlogic.com [207.51.66.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D320E14C2C for ; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 15:31:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ChrisMic@clientlogic.com) Received: by site0s1 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id ; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 18:31:37 -0500 Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB441A5FB4@site2s1> From: Christopher Michaels To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Changing groups Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 18:32:16 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanx, would have tested that but I'm about 5 miles away from the nearest BSD machine. :^) > -----Original Message----- > From: Crist J. Clark [SMTP:cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com] > Sent: Monday, March 22, 1999 4:21 PM > To: ChrisMic@clientlogic.com > Cc: jonc@pinnacle.co.nz; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Changing groups > > fChristopher Michaels wrote, > > > From: Jonathan Chen [SMTP:jonc@pinnacle.co.nz] > > > On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Christopher Michaels wrote: > > > > > > > Are we talking to permanently change the default GID of new files, > or > > > are we > > > > talking on a per file basis? > > > > - To permanently change the default group needed, you would have to > > > edit > > > > the password file and change that users group (vipw). > > > > - To change the group ownership of specific files, just use one of > the > > > > following. > > > > chgrp > > > > chown : > > > > > > > > > > Actually, under the BSD file creation semantics; any new file created > > > in a directory will get the directory's group-id by default. So all > > > you need to do is to create the directory with the correct group-id > > > required. > > > > I did notice something to the effect but I wasn't sure.. my questions > is.. > > does this apply even if the user isn't a member of that group? > > -Chris > > [107:/tmp] ls -ld . > drwxrwxrwt 5 bin bin 1024 Mar 22 16:30 . > [108:/tmp] id > uid=2045(cjc) gid=20(staff) groups=20(staff), 0(wheel) > [109:/tmp] touch foo > [110:/tmp] ls -ld foo . > drwxrwxrwt 5 bin bin 1024 Mar 22 16:30 . > -rw-rw-r-- 1 cjc bin 0 Mar 22 16:30 foo > > Yes. > -- > Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message