On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 11:30:58 -0400 "Reuben D. Budiardja" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hello, > I have the following problem which I hope someone can help. Suppose I > have > users: a,b,c,d,...,z. > > User a,b,c,d,e,f,g is member of group "cooluser" > > The other users are member of the default group (which in RH is the > group with > the same name of the username). > > I want user d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l only to be able to share stuff in a > directory, > so I create a new group: sausage (using "groupadd" command), and put > those > user as a member of the group sausage. > > I created directory /home/sausage and change the owner to root.sausage > with > complete access to the group > > $> chown -R root.sausage /home/sausage > $> chmod -R 775 /home/sausage > > Now, the problem is, if user d put a file in the /home/sausage, the > ownership > of the file is d.cooluser instead of d.sausage, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] sausage]# ls -lah > total 16k > drwxrwxr-x 2 root sausage 4.0k Sep 25 11:01 . > drwxr-xr-x 46 root root 4.0k Sep 25 10:59 .. > -rw-r--r-- 1 d cooluser 6.6k Sep 25 11:01 KlugGlosT.DOC > > > thus the other member of sausage which are not member of cooluser can't > write > to the file. What do I need to do so that the default ownership and > permission in the directory sausage is root.sausage and rwx for the > group? > > Thanks in advance for any help > RDB > -- Reuben, You need to tell Linux that all files created in that directory should be created with the Directory group instead of the users group: chmod g+s /home/sausage Sean -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
