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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 11/15/06, Rob Hudson < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.dartmouth.edu/%7Erc/help/faq/permissions.html>
>
> search for "groupID" on that page to get the relevant bits.
>
> :D
>
> --
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>
> -Quentin Hartman-
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