[Eug-lug] sticky group?

[Ben Barrett]

I meant to imply that our (my!) guesses at correct answers are a lot more
fun than finding out exactly how any given problem has been definitively
solved & documented in the past.  That is to say that I can only offer
partial answers, which are bound to be mostly wrong ;)

On 11/15/06, Ben Barrett <stircrazyben at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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<http://www.dartm=
outh.edu/%7Erc/help/faq/permissions.html>
> >
> > search for "groupID" on that page to get the relevant bits.
> >
> > :D
> >
> > --
> > -Regards-
> >
> > -Quentin Hartman-
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