Re: Full Group Perm/Own in a Directory

From: Barry Margolin (barmar_at_alum.mit.edu)
Date: 12/11/03 

Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 18:09:02 GMT

In article <3fd8730d.4414182@news21.on.aibn.com>,
 Lew.Pitcher@td.com (Lew Pitcher) wrote:

> With the SETGID bit set on the directory, all files subsequently created in
> that
> directory should inheret their groupid from the directory, rather than from
> the
> user that created them.

But that won't force them to have the group-write permission set.
That's controlled by the creating process's umask. 

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Woburn, MA

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