Re: Maintaining group ownership of new files

From: Upayavira (upayavira_at_fwbo.org)
Date: 10/30/04

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    Brian Kimball wrote:

    >Ext2/ext3 filesystems have built-in support for this behavior, but it's
    >not turned on by default in debian. Remount your filesystems with the
    >bsdgroups option. This is a lot cleaner than trying to maintain setgid
    >bits on all your directories and messing with umasks, which aren't
    >honored by all applications.
    >
    >
    Wow. Now that is a _really_ useful thing to know, and is going to help
    me a tremendous amount. Thanks for that.

    >See the manpage for mount for more details.
    >
    >
    Seen and absorbed.

    Regards, Upayavira

    >On Sunday 24 October 2004 10:21 pm, Upayavira wrote:
    >
    >
    >>Hi,
    >>
    >>I've used a freeBSD server where, when a file is created, that file
    >>becomes owned by the group who owns the containing folder.
    >>
    >>However, I cannot seem to make this happen on a Debian box. Anyone
    >>know how?
    >>
    >>Basically, I want to 'partition' a server using Unix groups. If a
    >>member of a group creates, uses modifies a file, that file is usable,
    >>modifiable, by other members of their group.
    >>
    >>I of course will be a member of all of these groups.
    >>
    >>Any ideas how to make this happen?
    >>
    >>Regards, Upayavira
    >>
    >> 

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