[Eug-lug] sticky group?

[Ben Barrett]

Yeah, the non-numerical chmod is much easier to understand,
so it'd be something like
chmod g+srw dirName
(add read/write/sticky for group)
and to get all files already in there I think you'd want to
chmod -R g+rw dirName
(recursively make dir & things in it, readable & writable for group)

The group affected is the current group owning the file; it should stay even
if that group name changes.  Beware, if you're using a more complex access
control system, like say the NSA code bundled with Fedora & some others, it
will be a very different story, but not necessarily harder -- for those I'd
recommend a nice front-end utility to help it make sense & get the right
answer :)

Google is for those without enough time, eh?  The LUG is here for the rest
of us.
HA, j/k.

     Ben


On 11/15/06, Quentin Hartman <qhartman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/15/06, Rob Hudson <rob at euglug.net> wrote:
> > How do I set up a directory so that any new files created in its
> > subdirectories maintain the group and group write permissions?
>
> Entering the above sentence into google returned this page as the first
> hit:
>
> http://www.dartmouth.edu/~rc/help/faq/permissions.html
>
> search for "groupID" on that page to get the relevant bits.
>
> :D
>
> --
> -Regards-
>
> -Quentin Hartman-
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