Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 16:20:51 -0500 (EST) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: ChrisMic@clientlogic.com (Christopher Michaels) Cc: jonc@pinnacle.co.nz, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Changing groups Message-ID: <199903222120.QAA08508@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB441A5FB3@site2s1> from Christopher Michaels at "Mar 22, 99 04:03:23 pm"
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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 <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. > > 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
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