sticky directories

2001-12-04 Thread Greg Wiley
Good day- IIRC, on another Unix, I was able to use the sticky bit on a directory to cause new entries in that directory to inherit ownership and permissions. In Debian, the semantics of the directory sticky bit are to add additional re- strictions on modifying the directory's entries. Q: is

sticky directories

2001-12-04 Thread Greg Wiley
Aw, nuts. Brain finally kicked in. The bit I needed is the setgid bit, not the sticky. Sorry for the noise. -=greg

Re: sticky directories

2001-12-04 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 08:11:29AM -0800, Greg Wiley wrote: Q: is there some way in Deb to cause new files to inherit ownership and permissions? In particular, I want files created by certain users in a certain directory to be owned by a group that each belongs to but that is not the