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Date:      Fri, 24 Dec 1999 08:24:03 +0000
From:      Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
To:        David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com>
Cc:        aunty@comcen.com.au, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org
Subject:   Re: individual groups? 
Message-ID:  <199912240824.IAA01397@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com>  of "Thu, 23 Dec 1999 07:45:55 PST." <199912231545.HAA63912@pau-amma.whistle.com> 

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> That said, the group mention in the passwd file is used to establish the
> default group ownership of files that are created.  (This is overridden
> if the setgid bit is set in the containing directory at the time of file
> creation, and it is overridden in such a case to be the group that owns
> the directory in question.)

This is sysv behaviour.  BSD always behaves as if the gid bit is set.

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Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>                        <brian@FreeBSD.org>
      <http://www.Awfulhak.org>;                   <brian@OpenBSD.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !          <brian@FreeBSD.org.uk>




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