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Date:      Mon, 22 Mar 1999 16:03:23 -0500
From:      Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com>
To:        'Jonathan Chen' <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: Changing groups
Message-ID:  <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB441A5FB3@site2s1>

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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

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Jonathan Chen [SMTP:jonc@pinnacle.co.nz]
> Sent:	Monday, March 22, 1999 3:54 PM
> Cc:	freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject:	RE: Changing groups
> 
> 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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