On Wednesday 28 March 2007, Jorge Almeida wrote:
> > What's the reason you want to set the sticky bit for thaqt user?
> > With some more info, maybe we can come up with an alternative
>
> Just to allow users of a certain group to write to common directories
> (not always the same, and which might be created by anyone of those
> users) and avoid deleting each other's files.
Could you rig it so these users will only create new dirs in a certain
place, like /tmp or /var/tmp? If so, would a cron job running every 10
minutes or so running this command be good enough?
find $TMP_DIR -group $GROUP -type d -exec chmod o+t {} \;
alan
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