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Date:      Tue, 23 Mar 1999 08:54:25 +1200 (NZST)
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: Changing groups
Message-ID:  <Pine.SC5.4.10.9903230852380.26685-100000@kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz>
In-Reply-To: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB441A5FAF@site2s1>

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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 <group> <files>
> 	chown <user>:<group> <files>
> 

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.

Jonathan Chen
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