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Date:      Mon, 22 Mar 1999 18:32:16 -0500
From:      Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: Changing groups
Message-ID:  <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB441A5FB4@site2s1>

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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 <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


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